San Francisco California-1944: Historic Building Entrance with Sword, Moon, and Star Emblem

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 San Francisco California

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Historic Building Entrance with Sword, Moon, and Star Emblem — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage home movie captures the grand entrance of a historic building in San Francisco, California. The clip opens on a large wooden door with an arched transom window displaying faded lettering. The camera then focuses on a detailed symbolic design featuring a white sword, crescent moon, and star set against a textured brown background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. Ideal for historical documentaries, archival projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125455323

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s San Francisco archive requests needing a brief exterior detail of a vintage building entrance and fraternal-style emblem.
Period detail: The wooden entry, arched transom lettering, and painted sword, crescent, and star emblem may show mid-1940s civic or fraternal building signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from an entrance detail to a close look at a symbolic emblem without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a wooden doorway, arched transom glass, faded lettering, a painted sword, crescent moon, star, textured wall surface, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, color shift, gate edges, and surface specks consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, location insert, symbolic transition, or memory beat within a sequence about San Francisco or fraternal architecture.
Historical context: The imagery documents how symbolic exterior ornament and entrance signage appeared in an urban California setting during the 1940s.
Research note: The emblem and partial lettering should be reviewed for organizational identification, trademark-like marks, and location rights separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s San Francisco 8mm building entrance, vintage emblem with sword crescent and star, and home movie architectural detail.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other San Francisco 1944 exteriors, then broader clips of symbolic building ornament or fraternal signage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a large wooden entrance with an arched transom and faint lettering above the doors. — A wooden entrance and arched transom appear at the start of the clip.

Close 1944 San Francisco view of a symbolic painted emblem with a white sword, crescent, and star on a textured brown background. — The camera cuts to a close view of the sword, crescent, and star emblem.

Soft 8mm close-up of the white sword, crescent, and star emblem, with the frame cropping the design at the edges. — The emblem fills most of the frame, with the star and crescent prominent.

Final 1944 San Francisco frame of the symbolic emblem, showing the sword, crescent, star, and visible surface marks from the film scan. — The closing frame holds on the emblem, with film specks and dark gate edges visible.

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