San Francisco California-1939: Two Women And Men Posing Near A Classic Car

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Two Women And Men Posing Near A Classic Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two women and a man posing near a classic automobile in San Francisco. A woman in a patterned dress stands by the car's open door while another woman sits on the fender and a man leans over the hood. The scene unfolds in front of a stucco house with a window and a bush in the foreground, showcasing the grainy texture and soft focus characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The subjects are casually dressed in period-appropriate attire, with one woman wearing a hat. The footage has a nostalgic, candid quality, capturing a moment of everyday life during the late 1930s.

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: 127270079

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: Yes
Minors 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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s San Francisco home-movie requests needing everyday people posed beside a prewar automobile in a residential setting.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s dress, a rounded prewar car body, hats, patterned clothing, and stucco residential architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The people appear to pose casually for the camera, shifting between a house doorway and a parked car rather than performing a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stucco house, window, entryway, shrub, open car door, rounded automobile front, two women, and one man.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, high contrast, visible grain, slight frame instability, and contact-sheet edge darkness typical of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, family-travel insert, automobile-era cutaway, or transition into late-1930s domestic life.
Historical context: The scene presents an informal social moment around a car and house, suggesting everyday mobility and family or friend documentation without identifying the subjects.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 San Francisco home movie, 8mm prewar car footage, people posing by vintage automobile, and 1930s residential family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with 1939 San Francisco material, then with other 1930s automobile and family-posing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage, a woman stands near a stucco house entry beside a window and shrub. — A woman poses outside a stucco residence near the doorway and front landscaping.

A woman stands outside a stucco residence in the 1939 San Francisco clip, with a doorway, window, and shrub behind her. — The woman remains posed near the house entrance, framed by the window and shrub.

The home-movie frame shows a woman outside a San Francisco stucco house, with residential details and foliage visible. — A residential exterior frames the woman as she stands near the entry and shrub.

In the 1939 San Francisco home movie, two women and a man pose around a rounded prewar car near a residential exterior. — Two women and a man gather around the car, with one woman seated on the fender and another by the open door.

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