New York USA-1938: 100 Year Old Sugar Maple Tree And Plaque

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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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100 Year Old Sugar Maple Tree And Plaque — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a majestic, ancient tree in New York, its massive trunk and sprawling branches filling the frame. The footage, marked by classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, shows a close-up of a weathered informational plaque describing the tree as a 100-year-old Sugar Maple, emphasizing its age and protected status. The black-and-white imagery evokes a sense of quiet reverence for nature's endurance, with the camera holding steady on the tree and its sign, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century environmental appreciation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123038858

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: Useful for 1930s New York archive requests needing a brief nature, preservation, or community-history cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frames and plaque typography support a late-1930s home-movie context, while the exact New York site is not identifiable from the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a visitor pausing to document a notable tree and its explanatory sign rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large tree trunk, bare branches, woodland background, a dark frame edge, blurred plaque lettering, and soft projected-film texture.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld steadiness that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, contemplative transition, or memory beat for tree preservation, local history, parks, or aging landscapes.
Historical context: The footage records an ordinary act of noticing and preserving information about an old sugar maple, without showing people or a wider public ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but the plaque text and exact site should be checked for copyright, property, and location identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New York 8mm tree footage, old sugar maple plaque, historic nature cutaway, and black-and-white home movie landscape detail.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1938 New York exteriors, then thematically related footage of trees, parks, plaques, and local preservation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a large old tree trunk with branching limbs in soft black-and-white focus. — A large tree trunk fills the frame, with bare branches and surrounding woodland visible behind it.

Close-up of a weathered plaque in the 1938 New York footage, with partially readable text about a sugar maple. — A soft, grainy close-up frames the plaque text identifying the sugar maple and its age.

Black-and-white 8mm close-up of the plaque, with readable fragments about a 100-year-old sugar maple. — The camera holds on the plaque, where several lines of text remain visible despite soft focus.

Final 1938 New York frame showing the plaque text in soft focus, emphasizing the old sugar maple description. — The final frame stays tight on the plaque, with the sugar maple description still partially legible.

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