California USA-1938: Group Of Whitetail Deer At Night

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

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Group Of Whitetail Deer At Night — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1938 captures a group of whitetail deer at night. The grainy, low-light footage shows several deer with white tails standing and moving across a dark, grassy clearing. The scene is illuminated by a flash or artificial light, creating a stark contrast against the black night sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible grain, soft focus, and a slightly blue tint. The deer appear alert, some standing still while others walk slowly across the frame. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a natural setting, preserved in its original 1930s home movie format.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121486123

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California 8mm wildlife footage for documentary inserts, natural-history context, or archival night-scene cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show an early home-movie attempt to film deer at night, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or landmarks to confirm period detail beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a home-movie operator recording animals from a fixed or lightly handheld position as deer pause and move through a dark clearing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several deer, pale tails, a grassy clearing, dark wooded background, low artificial illumination, soft focus, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy grain, low-light exposure, soft contrast, blue-black shadows, and slight frame instability consistent with scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, nocturnal transition, rural memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1930s California home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for amateur wildlife filming, showing deer observed at night without visible people, signage, property markers, or identifiable built environment.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, species identification, and location claims should be verified before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California 8mm deer footage, vintage home movie wildlife at night, archival deer in clearing, and low-light animal film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 California material, then broader vintage wildlife or nocturnal nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Several deer stand in a dim grassy clearing in archival 8mm footage identified as California, 1938. — Deer gather in a low-lit clearing at night.

A small group of deer remains alert in a dark California clearing, seen in grainy 1938 8mm home-movie footage. — Alert deer stand in the illuminated patch of ground.

Deer appear spread across a low-lit grassy clearing in archival footage identified as California, 1938. — Deer move or stand apart across the clearing.

Several deer stand in a shadowed clearing, their pale tail areas catching the light in 1938 California 8mm footage. — Pale tail patches mark the deer in the night scene.

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