New York USA-1938: People Eating In The Forest

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

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People Eating In The Forest — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: A group of people enjoy a leisurely picnic in a wooded forest setting, captured on 8mm home movie film. Men and women in period attire, including collared shirts and hats, sit on the ground, sharing food and conversation. The black-and-white footage shows natural interactions and relaxed postures, with trees and foliage forming a dense backdrop. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of vintage 8mm film from the late 1930s, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123038624

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 home-movie requests needing informal leisure, picnic, friendship, or outdoor social-life footage for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: Visible era clues include collared shirts, simple blouses, a brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and picnic seating that may show late-1930s casual dress.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged group behavior as adults sit on the forest floor, eat, talk, and look toward or away from the camera.
What appears in frame: The frames show seated adults, trees, leafy ground, cups, food or picnic items, a brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and soft woodland shade.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, frame-edge darkness, and handheld home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, picnic cutaway, or transitional glimpse of prewar outdoor leisure.
Historical context: The clip provides a small social view of adults gathering outdoors in a wooded New York setting without identifying a specific park or event.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separate from copyright or source-film licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New York 8mm picnic footage, 1930s home movie forest gathering, and vintage adults eating outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1938 New York scenes, then broader 1930s picnic or leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York home-movie frame of adults seated in a wooded area during a picnic, some facing the camera. — Adults sit together on the ground in a shaded forest picnic setting.

1938 New York home-movie frame showing adults resting in a wooded picnic area, with a brimmed hat and cups visible. — A seated picnic group pauses among trees and leaf litter.

1938 New York home-movie frame of adults sitting close together on the forest floor during an informal outdoor meal. — Picnickers sit close together on the ground in a wooded setting.

1938 New York home-movie frame with a man holding a cup near a tree as other adults sit in the wooded picnic area. — A man with a cup sits beside a tree as the picnic continues nearby.

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