Albany New York USA-1937: Men Group Plumage Into Lake During Winter Season

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Albany New York

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Men Group Plumage Into Lake During Winter Season — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Albany, New York, in 1937 showing a group of men in dark winter coats gathered on a wooden platform overlooking a frozen lake. The grainy black-and-white film captures a winter scene with bare trees and snow-covered ground. The men appear to be preparing for or participating in a winter plunge, with one individual visible on the platform's edge. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including grain, slight motion blur, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century winter recreation and community events.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120806226

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 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: Albany, New York, 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: This clip supports 1930s Albany winter-recreation requests needing brief home-movie footage of men gathered at a frozen lakeside platform for a cold-weather plunge or community outing.
Period detail: The dark overcoats, bare trees, snow-covered ground, simple wooden platform, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s winter setting consistent with the supplied Albany, New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of men clustering, waiting, and moving around a lakeside platform as if participating in or watching a winter plunge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen or snow-covered lake surface, a wooden platform or dock, groups of men in dark winter coats, bare winter trees, railings, and open snow-covered ground.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild blur, uneven exposure, contact-print softness, and small frame-to-frame shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for winter recreation, local community life, or Depression-era home-movie atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests organized outdoor winter activity in a public or park-like lakeside setting, while the exact event and participants are not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, and copyright status should be assessed separately from any location or personal-identification concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1930s Albany winter lake home movie, men on frozen lakeside platform, 8mm winter plunge footage, and New York winter recreation archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Albany or 1937 winter scenes, and then with broader frozen-lake recreation or community-outing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Albany, New York home-movie frame from 1937 showing men in winter coats grouped on a wooden lakeside platform with snow and bare trees behind them. — Men gather on a winter lakeside platform.

Albany, New York 1937 winter frame showing a clustered group of men on a wooden platform near a frozen lake, with another person walking across the snowy ground. — A group remains gathered as another figure crosses the snow.

1937 Albany winter home-movie frame with men in dark coats gathered on a lakeside wooden platform and one figure standing to the side on snow. — Men stand around the platform in winter conditions.

Albany, New York 1937 frame showing a winter lakeside platform crowded with men in coats, with snow, bare trees, and a nearby walking figure visible. — The platform remains crowded near the frozen lake.

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