New York USA-1938: Group Outdoors with Woman Taking Photograph

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

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Group Outdoors with Woman Taking Photograph — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: A group of people relax outdoors on a grassy slope, captured on 8mm film. A woman in a swimsuit takes a photograph with a vintage camera, while others, including a man in a t-shirt, recline nearby. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a casual, sunlit gathering, with one man standing alone against a hilly backdrop. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century American leisure and personal memory.

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: 123039511

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 home-movie requests needing casual outdoor leisure, amateur photography, and small-group social life for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The clothing, swimsuits, short hairstyles, and handheld 8mm black-and-white look support a late-1930s leisure setting, with New York supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged relaxation as people sit on grass, look away from camera, and one woman photographs the gathering from within the group.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include reclining adults, a woman using a camera, a man in a white T-shirt, grassy slopes, hilly background, and heavy film frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm contrast, visible grain, uneven exposure, vertical scratches, and contact-frame borders that signal original amateur film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, leisure cutaway, or transition into personal photography, summer recreation, or prewar family-social material.
Historical context: The scene shows informal outdoor socializing and amateur picture-taking, suggesting personal leisure culture without identifying the group or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed even where footage copyright status is separately assessed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New York 8mm home movies, outdoor friends relaxing, woman with vintage camera, black-and-white leisure footage, and prewar American social life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel outdoor gathering shots, then other 1938 New York material, then broader themes of amateur photography and casual recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York home-movie frame showing adults seated outdoors on grass, their faces partly turned from the camera. — Adults relax on a grassy slope during an informal outdoor gathering.

1938 New York frame with a seated man in a white T-shirt and a woman using a camera beside others on grass. — A woman photographs the gathering while others sit nearby on the slope.

1938 New York outdoor home-movie frame showing a man from behind and a woman photographing from a seated position. — The camera view moves closer to the woman taking a picture among seated companions.

1938 New York home-movie frame showing a man standing on open ground with hills in the background. — A lone man stands against a soft hilly backdrop in the final frame.

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