San Francisco California-1944: Brick Building Covered in Ivy with Trees

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

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Brick Building Covered in Ivy with Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage home movie captures a large brick building in San Francisco, California. The camera pans across the structure, revealing arched windows, a tiled roof, and ivy-covered walls. Lush green trees and bushes frame the building, with a prominent tree partially obscuring the view. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for historical or documentary projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125455455

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
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 1940s San Francisco exterior footage for documentary inserts needing a quiet institutional or residential building view from original 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The red brick walls, arched upper windows, clay tile roof, divided-light windows, and climbing ivy may show older Bay Area architectural detail visible in the 1944 footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from outside at visitor height, panning across the facade without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include brick walls, arched windows, clay roof tiles, ivy growth, trees, shrubs, window awnings, and divided-light lower windows.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld drift, and exposure variation consistent with home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat within a San Francisco sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a landscaped brick building exterior in wartime-era San Francisco without showing identifiable people, street activity, or signage.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but exterior architecture and property context may still require separate review from copyright, location, and property-release perspectives.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1944 San Francisco 8mm building exterior, vintage brick architecture, ivy-covered facade, tiled roof, and home-movie landmark cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 San Francisco exteriors, then broader 1940s California architecture or home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a brick building with arched openings, trees, shrubs, and heavy dark borders from the film scan. — A tree and shrubs partly block the view of the brick building facade.

1944 San Francisco exterior frame of a brick building corner with clay roof tiles, arched upper windows, ivy, and trees behind it. — The pan reveals the upper story, arched windows, and tile roof of the brick structure.

1944 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a closer brick facade with paired arched windows, divided-light lower windows, ivy, and plantings. — Paired arched windows and ivy-covered sections mark the middle of the facade.

1944 San Francisco frame of the brick exterior with several arched windows, dark ivy growth, shrubs, and divided-light lower windows. — The final view centers on arched windows and ivy across the brick building exterior.

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