New York USA-1938: Man in Hat Outside Farmhouse in 8mm Home Movie

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

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Man in Hat Outside Farmhouse in 8mm Home Movie — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: A man in a light-colored shirt and hat stands outside a rustic farmhouse with white double doors and a small window. The black-and-white 8mm footage shows a quiet rural scene with a white chair and plants near the entrance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and a slightly soft focus, capturing a candid moment from a 1930s home movie. The man appears to be waiting or observing, with trees visible in the background. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into everyday life in a 1930s American countryside.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123038877

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s New York rural-life requests needing a brief home-movie exterior of a man outside a farmhouse or country building.
Period detail: The man's brimmed hat, plain shirt, white-trimmed doors, and rustic clapboard siding support a late-1930s rural domestic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears casually posed or waiting near the entrance, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of everyday presence outside a country house.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a hat, white double doors, clapboard siding, a small multi-pane window, a chair, potted greenery, shrubs, and a partial printed-text frame.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge framing give the footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural exterior insert, memory beat, or transitional cutaway within a 1930s family, country living, or New York sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows a quiet domestic exterior rather than a public event, suggesting everyday rural or small-town life captured by an amateur camera.
Research note: A person is visible and the setting may be identifiable private property, so likeness and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Search matches include 1938 New York 8mm home movie, man outside farmhouse, rural domestic exterior, black-and-white country house, and Depression-era family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1938 New York clips, then broader rural farmhouse exteriors or 1930s home-movie domestic scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft, out-of-focus black-and-white frame showing printed text, likely a title card or document photographed within the reel. — Blurred printed text appears at the start of the contact sheet.

In 1938 New York home-movie footage, a man in a brimmed hat stands outside a clapboard farmhouse with white double doors and plants nearby. — A man stands by the entrance of a rustic farmhouse exterior.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from New York in 1938 showing the man partly framed below a farmhouse wall, window, shrub, and doorway edge. — The camera frames the farmhouse wall, window, shrubs, and the man at the lower edge.

1938 New York home-movie frame showing a farmhouse exterior with a white-trimmed window, shrubs, and the man's hat and shoulders at the lower edge. — A farmhouse window and siding dominate the frame as the man remains partly visible below.

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