New York USA-1938: Foggy Forest and River Landscape

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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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Foggy Forest and River Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a foggy, atmospheric landscape from New York USA. The grainy, monochrome footage shows a distant river and forest shrouded in mist, viewed through a window or frame. The image is hazy and indistinct, with soft focus and visible film grain, scratches, and dust, evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia. The camera remains static, emphasizing the stillness of the foggy morning.

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: 123038914

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 landscape footage suited for documentary inserts needing fog, distance, rural travel, or atmospheric memory imagery.
Period detail: The frames show monochrome 8mm footage with a framed or window-like view, offering limited visible era clues beyond the supported 1938 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet, observational feel of a traveler filming a misty landscape through a window or structural frame rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include fog, distant tree line, pale sky, a possible river or road edge, dark vertical framing bars, film scratches, dust, and soft horizon lines.
Film character: The footage carries a grainy 8mm texture with soft focus, low contrast, vertical scratches, dust marks, and uneven exposure that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief atmospheric cutaway, transition, memory beat, or visual pause between travel, rural, or weather-related sequences.
Historical context: The view may show a rural or semi-rural New York landscape in mist, but the frames do not identify a specific landmark, town, river, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New York 8mm fog landscape, vintage home movie misty river view, and 1930s rural nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York travel footage, then broader fog, river, forest, and rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a hazy landscape with a low tree line or field seen through a dark frame. — A misty distant landscape is viewed through heavy dark framing.

1938 New York 8mm frame with fog over open land and a pale diagonal line that may be a road, riverbank, or water edge. — A pale diagonal feature cuts through the misty distant view.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a hazy landscape through a window-like border, with a faint diagonal road or water edge. — The soft landscape remains partly obscured by fog and film wear.

1938 New York 8mm frame with a nearly washed-out foggy landscape, faint distant line, and prominent film dust and scratches. — The final frame is mostly mist and pale horizon with visible film texture.

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