California USA-1938: A Deer Standing Still In Front Of A Wooded Area

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

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A Deer Standing Still In Front Of A Wooded Area — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in California, showing a deer standing motionless on a grassy slope in a dense pine forest. The animal faces forward, framed by tall evergreens under soft natural light. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color tones, slight grain, and subtle edge distortion. The scene captures a quiet moment of wildlife observation in a remote wooded area, evoking nostalgia for mid-20th century nature documentaries and family travel films.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121486210

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California wildlife home-movie footage for editors needing a quiet deer cutaway or forest nature insert.
Period detail: The small 8mm frame, color cast, soft focus, and wooded travel-film viewpoint support the supplied 1938 California home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a distance as if a traveler or family filmer paused quietly to observe the deer without staging the moment.
What appears in frame: A deer stands on a grassy slope before dense evergreen trees, with fallen wood, shaded forest, soft sky gaps, and dark film borders visible.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, warm-to-cool color variation, mild gate weave, soft exposure, and contact-print edge shadows.
Edit role: Use it as a brief wildlife insert, nature transition, travel-memory beat, or calm cutaway within a broader 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene records recreational observation of wild landscape and animal life, without visible people, buildings, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and wildlife/location identification should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 California 8mm deer, vintage forest wildlife, home movie deer in woods, and 1930s nature travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1938 California forest or travel footage, then broader vintage wildlife and woodland home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing a deer standing still on a forested slope among tall evergreens. — A deer pauses on a grassy rise at the edge of a pine forest.

1938 California home-movie frame with a deer facing forward on a grassy patch before dense conifers. — The deer remains motionless against a shaded evergreen backdrop.

Soft 8mm frame from 1938 California showing a deer on a grassy slope below tall forest trees. — A distant deer stands at the boundary between grass and dense trees.

Final 1938 California 8mm still showing the deer standing quietly before a dense evergreen wooded area. — The clip ends with the deer still standing in the forest clearing.

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