New York USA-1938: Mountain Landscape with Rolling Hills

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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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Mountain Landscape with Rolling Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape in New York. The grainy black-and-white footage shows rolling hills under an overcast sky, with pine trees and foliage in the foreground. The camera pans slowly across the natural scenery, revealing the texture of the terrain and the quiet beauty of the wilderness. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, 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: 123039391

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm New York mountain landscape footage for documentary inserts, regional history programs, environmental sequences, or reflective Americana transitions.
Period detail: The frames may show period home-movie travel scenery, with no vehicles, clothing, signage, or built landmarks visible to further date the scene beyond the supplied 1938 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, pausing on distant hills and foreground evergreens rather than staging an event or identifying a destination.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling mountain ridges, hazy overcast sky, dark evergreen branches, wooded slopes, soft foreground foliage, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame jitter, scratches, and contact-print borders that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic insert, location-establishing cutaway, reel transition, or memory beat between more specific New York travel scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests recreational or travel filming of rural mountain scenery in New York, without visible people, structures, roads, or named landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and location identification should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 8mm New York mountains, vintage home movie mountain landscape, black and white forest hills, and 1930s rural scenery footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York footage, then broader 1930s mountain, forest, travel, and nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York home-movie frame showing a soft mountain ridge, overcast sky, and silhouetted evergreen branches within 8mm borders. — Mountain ridge and foreground evergreen branches framed by the 8mm gate.

1938 New York mountain scenery with a rounded wooded slope, pale sky, and evergreen branches seen through soft 8mm film texture. — Rounded hillside viewed past foreground evergreen branches.

1938 New York landscape frame with layered mountain slopes, hazy sky, and sparse evergreen tips in the foreground. — Layered mountain slopes receding under an overcast sky.

1938 New York home-movie view of a muted mountain ridge, wooded foreground, and pale sky in a grainy 8mm frame. — Muted ridge line and wooded foreground in soft archival 8mm texture.

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