New York USA-1938: Black And White Video Showing People Eating Outdoors

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

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Black And White Video Showing People Eating Outdoors — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: Black and white 8mm home movie footage captures a group of people enjoying a meal outdoors in a wooded area. Individuals in period clothing, including jackets and hats, are seen sitting on rocks and logs, eating from plates and bowls. The grainy, high-contrast film shows a natural, candid moment with a rustic setting of bare trees and rocks, evoking a sense of mid-20th century Americana and nostalgia. The handheld camera movement adds to the authentic, personal feel of this archival home movie.

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: 123039310

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 candid outdoor eating, picnic, or wooded social-gathering material for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: Period clothing, simple plates or bowls, hats, heavy jackets, and the 8mm black-and-white look support a late-1930s home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged behavior of people eating, passing food, and sitting among rocks and bare trees while the camera observes nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults eating from plates, dark jackets, a brimmed cap, rocks or logs used as seating, bare trees, and a handheld outdoor camera view.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, high contrast, slight blur, and handheld framing that reads as original home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition for family leisure, outdoor meals, social outings, or Depression-era domestic life themes.
Historical context: The scene shows a small outdoor meal in a wooded area, offering everyday social context without identifying the people, exact site, or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, private interiors, or music are evident from the supplied metadata and frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 New York 8mm picnic footage, black-and-white home movie people eating outdoors, and 1930s wooded social gathering.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York home movies, then broader 1930s outdoor eating or family-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New York home-movie footage, a young woman in a dark jacket eats from a small plate near rocks and other seated adults. — A woman eats from a plate during an outdoor meal in a rocky wooded setting.

A young woman in a dark jacket eats outdoors from a plate in the 1938 New York home-movie scene, with rocks and seated companions behind her. — The seated woman takes a bite during the outdoor group meal.

Adults in jackets sit among rocks and bare trees, eating from plates in black-and-white 1938 New York home-movie footage. — Adults pause for food while seated in a wooded, rocky area.

A woman holding a plate stands near a seated man in a cap, with bare trees behind them in the 1938 New York outdoor meal footage. — A standing woman with a plate faces a seated man during the wooded outdoor gathering.

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