New York USA-1938: The Old Big Tree Looking Beautiful And Strong Living

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

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

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The Old Big Tree Looking Beautiful And Strong Living — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a majestic old tree in New York, its thick trunk and sprawling branches filling the frame. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy, creating dappled light patterns on the textured bark. The footage, marked by classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, offers a nostalgic glimpse of nature's enduring strength. The camera moves slowly, emphasizing the tree's grandeur and the quiet beauty of the forest. Ideal for historical documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123038847

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 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: 1930s New York 8mm home-movie nature footage suited for documentary cutaways, environmental memory beats, or archival inserts showing mature trees and woodland canopy.
Period detail: The frames offer few dateable clues beyond the 8mm home-movie format and metadata, showing close views of a large tree, branches, leaves, and bright sky filtered through foliage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears handheld and observational, lingering on bark, branches, and canopy as a home-movie record of a striking old tree rather than a staged nature scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a thick tree trunk, spreading limbs, dense leafy canopy, patches of bright sky, surrounding woodland, soft focus, film gate edges, and exposure flicker.
Film character: The clip has a physical 8mm texture with monochrome grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight blur, and visible frame-edge darkness that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, nature insert, transition, or reflective memory beat within sequences about landscape, place, age, or outdoor family-film atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a mature tree and wooded setting in a 1930s home-movie context without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or collection permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 New York 8mm tree footage, 1930s home movie woodland canopy, vintage forest cutaway, old tree trunk archival film, and nature insert footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 New York outdoor footage, and then with broader 1930s nature, forest, tree, and landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing tall tree trunks, dense foliage, and bright sky glimpsed through the canopy. — Tree trunks and upper branches fill the frame with bright sky behind the leaves.

1938 New York 8mm view of a mature tree canopy with interlaced branches and high-contrast sky openings. — Dense branches and leaves form a high-contrast canopy view.

1938 New York 8mm frame looking up through leaves and branches, with bright sky diffused by the old film exposure. — Leaves, branches, and sky create a dappled woodland canopy.

1938 New York 8mm view of a thick old tree trunk with broad limbs and wooded background. — A large trunk and heavy branches dominate the wooded view.

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