California USA-1938: Turkey In The Middle Of The Wilderness Walking Around

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Turkey In The Middle Of The Wilderness Walking Around — Clip Details

Vintage 1938 8mm home movie footage from California USA showing a turkey walking through a dense forest. The clip captures the bird moving across a sun-dappled clearing surrounded by tall evergreen trees, with natural light filtering through the canopy. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, characteristic of amateur 1930s home movies. The scene evokes a sense of quiet wilderness and historical Americana, offering authentic archival footage of wildlife in its natural habitat.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121486149

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: Useful for 1930s California wildlife or wilderness requests needing brief documentary cutaways from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible era clues are mainly the 8mm amateur color stock, soft exposure, and handheld framing rather than clothing, vehicles, signs, or buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged field-observation quality, with the camera held at a distance as a turkey moves through a forest clearing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a turkey, evergreen trees, a shaded forest floor, patches of dry grass, scattered light areas, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows coarse 8mm grain, dark edge falloff, uneven exposure, muted color shifts, and slight handheld softness consistent with original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, a rural transition, or a quiet memory beat within a California or American wilderness sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a non-urban outdoor environment in California, with emphasis on wildlife and forest habitat rather than identifiable public events or landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 8mm California wildlife, vintage turkey in forest, home movie wilderness footage, and 1930s nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other California 1938 outdoor scenes, then broader 1930s wildlife or forest home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing a turkey moving through a dim forest clearing beneath tall evergreen trees. — A turkey appears in a sun-dappled forest clearing surrounded by dark evergreens.

The turkey continues through the California forest clearing in soft, grainy 8mm home-movie footage from 1938. — The bird moves across a small clearing framed by dense evergreen growth.

Grainy 1938 California 8mm frame with a turkey near a forest clearing, seen through dark tree shadows. — The turkey remains visible near the clearing as the handheld camera holds a distant view.

Final 1938 California 8mm frame showing the turkey partly obscured in a dim evergreen forest clearing. — The bird is partly hidden by shadow as the clearing darkens toward the end of the shot.

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