California USA-1936: Silhouetted Figures Walking Through Grassy Field At Dusk

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Year1936
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1936 California

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Silhouetted Figures Walking Through Grassy Field At Dusk — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1936 shows silhouetted figures walking through a grassy field at dusk. The scene is bathed in a deep purple hue, with grainy film texture and vertical scratches visible throughout. Two individuals, one wearing a hat, move across the frame against a darkening sky, their forms appearing as dark shadows. The low-light conditions create a mysterious, eerie atmosphere, capturing a quiet moment of rural life from the 1930s. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with natural film grain and subtle color shifts.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121506933

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: 1936 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: California, 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

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a rural dusk insert, memory beat, or ominous transitional landscape with visible human silhouettes.
Period detail: The footage may show 1930s rural dress and movement, including a brimmed hat and dark outdoor clothing, though low light limits identification of period-specific details.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged glimpse of people moving through a field at dusk, filmed from a distant home-movie perspective without posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include silhouetted figures, a grassy field, low brush, a dark horizon line, purple evening sky, film gate edges, and vertical surface marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, underexposed dusk color, handheld framing, gate shadows, and purple color shift that signal original small-gauge home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, eerie transition, rural memory fragment, or atmospheric insert between more identifiable 1930s California scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for outdoor rural movement and home-movie observation in California, without enough detail to identify a specific community or event.
Research note: People are visible only as silhouettes, so likeness risk appears limited but should still be reviewed separately from copyright and source licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California 8mm dusk field, silhouetted people walking, rural home movie at nightfall, and eerie vintage field footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1936 California rural footage, and then with dusk landscapes or silhouetted walking scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing a dark human silhouette near low brush against a purple dusk sky. — A silhouetted figure in a hat appears near the edge of a grassy field at dusk.

A distant silhouetted person crosses a brushy California field line in low dusk light, with film scratches visible. — A lone dark figure moves along the brush line under a dim purple sky.

A 1936 California home-movie frame shows a human silhouette near scrubby vegetation against a low purple evening sky. — The figure pauses or walks near the brush at the edge of the dark field.

The final frame is mostly a dark grassy field and horizon under purple dusk exposure, with the figure no longer clearly visible. — The field falls nearly into darkness as the silhouetted action becomes hard to distinguish.

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