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California USA-1938: Man Drinking From Bottle While Riding Horse In Woods

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  • Year1938
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationCalifornia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1938 California

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Man Drinking From Bottle While Riding Horse In Woods — Clip Details

A young man in a striped shirt and cap rides a horse through a wooded area in this 1938 8mm home movie from California. He holds a bottle and takes a drink while seated on the horse, then dismounts and stands beside the animal in a forested setting. The footage captures a candid moment of rural life with natural lighting and the characteristic grain of vintage Super 8 film. The man wears casual attire typical of the era, and the scene exudes a nostalgic, documentary-style charm.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
ExteriorBlack & 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
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
121485823

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label
bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note
1938
Reel-level location note
california
Date
1938 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
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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Topics & Keywords

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  • historical footage
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing a brief rural leisure or horseback-riding moment for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail
The rider's cap, striped shirt, tack, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s home-movie reading without identifying a specific town or trail.
Home-movie behavior
The clip preserves an unstaged-feeling moment as a young man drinks from a bottle while mounted, then stands casually near the horse.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a young man, horse, bottle, cap, striped shirt, wooded roadside, reins, and strong sunlight through trees.
Film character
The footage has dense 8mm grain, high-contrast exposure, soft focus, and slight handheld framing that read as original physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, horseback travel beat, or informal character moment in a 1930s memory sequence.
Historical context
The scene shows recreational or rural mobility around a wooded California setting, with casual dress and animal handling recorded from a family-film viewpoint.
Research note
A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, audible music, or private interiors are apparent in the frames.
Research search match
Researchers might find this through searches for 1938 California 8mm home movie, man drinking on horseback, rural horse riding, or wooded family footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then California 1938 home movies, then broader 1930s rural leisure or horseback-riding material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 California home-movie footage, a young man in a cap and striped shirt drinks from a bottle while riding a horse among trees.
A rider drinks from a bottle while seated on horseback in a wooded setting.
A young man on horseback holds a bottle near his mouth in a wooded California setting, shown in grainy 1938 8mm footage.
The mounted rider pauses with a bottle raised near his face.
A young man stands near a horse along a wooded path or roadside in California, recorded in 1938 home-movie footage.
After dismounting, the man stands beside the horse near trees and a path.
The rider in a striped shirt stands near the horse beneath trees in a high-contrast 1938 California home-movie frame.
The man stands near the horse in shade and dappled sunlight.

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