New York USA-1938: Person Resting and Others Roasting Food over Fire

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Person Resting and Others Roasting Food over Fire — Clip Details

A young person in a light-colored shirt and shorts lies on a blanket in a wooded area, resting on the forest floor. The scene, captured on 8mm film in 1938, shows a quiet moment of relaxation in nature. In a separate shot, hands use two sticks to roast food over a small fire, highlighting a simple outdoor cooking method. The black-and-white footage has a grainy texture and soft focus typical of vintage home movies, evoking a nostalgic, documentary feel of mid-20th century American life.

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: 123038428

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 1921 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: vacation,rutledge,marble quary
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: elyria ohio,gordham new york
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: New York, 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 New York outdoor leisure or camping sequences needing brief home-movie inserts of resting in woods and simple fire cooking.
Period detail: The clothing, black-and-white 8mm texture, and informal wooded setting support a late-1930s home-movie reading, with New York and 1938 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged leisure behavior, with one person reclining outdoors and others gathered close to a small cooking fire.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a reclining person on a blanket, wooded ground, branches, a striped shirt, a brimmed hat, hands, sticks, and food over a fire.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for outdoor recreation, camp life, or informal family leisure.
Historical context: The scenes show casual outdoor recreation and improvised cooking without enough visual evidence to identify a specific park, event, or family group.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, audible music, or identifiable private property are apparent from the frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New York 8mm home movie, black-and-white wooded picnic, outdoor resting, campfire cooking, and vintage family leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York material, then broader 1930s outdoor leisure or campfire cooking footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York home-movie frame of a person reclining on a blanket on the forest floor, surrounded by leaves and branches. — A person rests on a blanket in the woods, framed in soft black-and-white 8mm texture.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1938 New York showing a person lying back on a blanket in a wooded outdoor setting. — The reclining figure remains on the forest floor, with branches and rough ground visible around them.

1938 New York home-movie frame of two people seated outdoors, with a striped shirt and brimmed hat visible in a shaded wooded area. — Two people sit close together outdoors, one in a striped shirt and another in a broad-brimmed hat.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1938 New York showing hands using two sticks to roast food over a small fire outdoors. — Hands guide two sticks over a small fire area, suggesting simple outdoor cooking.

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