New York USA-1938: A Foggy Day With Mountains Peaking Through The Sky

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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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A Foggy Day With Mountains Peaking Through The Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a moody mountain landscape under a thick, overcast sky. The grainy black-and-white footage shows rolling hills and peaks emerging through dense fog, with a slow pan revealing layers of misty terrain. The dark frame borders and film scratches enhance its authentic archival feel, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and natural mystery from a bygone era.

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: 123039402

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 for productions needing a brief foggy mountain or rural nature atmosphere insert.
Period detail: The frames show no buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage, so period detail rests mainly on the 1938 8mm home-movie metadata and film handling marks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the mountain view from a quiet, unstaged vantage point, using a slow scenic pan rather than directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark mountain ridges, layered fog, overcast sky, tree-covered slopes, soft horizon lines, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, gate edges, scratches, and slight exposure variation typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape cutaway, reflective transition, weather insert, or memory beat between travel or rural sequences.
Historical context: As home-movie landscape footage, it may reflect a 1930s leisure or travel viewpoint focused on scenery rather than identifiable human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and exact geographic identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New York 8mm mountains, foggy mountain landscape, black-and-white home movie scenery, and misty rural hills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1938 New York landscape clips, then broader fog, mountain, and rural nature home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a distant mountain ridge partly softened by fog under a gray sky. — A misty mountain ridge sits low under a heavy overcast sky.

1938 New York 8mm frame with a rounded mountain peak emerging from fog beneath a flat gray sky. — A rounded peak emerges through the haze in the center of the frame.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a closer dark slope and a fog-softened valley behind it. — A closer slope fills the foreground while distant terrain fades into mist.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing layered mountain slopes and a hazy valley under gray cloud cover. — Layered ridges recede into a foggy valley beneath the overcast sky.

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