San Francisco California-1939: Family Posing With Classic Car In 1930s

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Family Posing With Classic Car In 1930s — Clip Details

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a family moment with a man in a suit, a woman in a patterned dress, and a young girl in a plaid dress and hat, posing around a classic 1930s sedan. The woman leans from the open car door while the girl sits on the front fender, and the man stands nearby. Shot in black and white with authentic film grain, the footage shows a sunny day with trees and power transmission towers in the background, evoking a nostalgic 1930s American family outing.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127270089

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: 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 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 family-life, automobile, and California home-movie requests needing a brief posed domestic travel or outing moment.
Period detail: The rounded sedan styling, formal clothing, patterned dresses, hats, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The group appears to pose casually around the car, with the seated younger female and woman at the door responding to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a 1930s sedan, three people, open passenger door, front fender pose, trees, transmission towers, hats, dresses, and suit jacket.
Film character: The clip has black-and-white 8mm texture with visible grain, slight softness, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edge shadows.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a family-memory insert, period automobile cutaway, or brief transition into 1930s domestic travel material.
Historical context: The scene shows a small family or social group using an automobile as a posed backdrop in an outdoor residential or roadside setting.
Research note: People and a visible vehicle emblem or plate may require likeness, privacy, brand, and location review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 San Francisco home movie, 1930s family posing with car, black-and-white 8mm automobile footage, and vintage family outing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family footage, then San Francisco or 1939 material, then broader 1930s automobile and home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage, three people pose around a classic sedan with trees and towers behind them. — A man, a seated younger female, and a woman at the open car door pose with a 1930s sedan.

The 1939 San Francisco scene shows the group shifting poses around the sedan, with the woman by the open door. — The woman lifts an arm beside the open passenger door while the others stand and sit near the car.

A black-and-white 8mm frame shows a younger female seated on the sedan fender and a woman leaning near the open door. — The seated figure faces the camera while the woman remains near the open car door.

Near the end of the 1939 San Francisco clip, the man steps closer while the others stay posed around the sedan. — The man moves into the foreground as the seated figure and woman continue posing with the car.

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