New York USA-1938: Heavy Cloudy Fog Obscuring Large Mountain Peaks In The

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

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Heavy Cloudy Fog Obscuring Large Mountain Peaks In The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a hazy, overcast landscape with large mountain peaks obscured by thick fog. The grainy, monochromatic image shows rolling hills under a heavy, uniform sky, with faint vertical film scratches and natural wear visible throughout. The scene evokes a quiet, atmospheric mood, suggesting a remote or rural location in New York. The camera remains static, focusing on the obscured natural terrain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of early 20th-century film aesthetics.

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: 123039608

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: Useful for 1930s archive requests needing a quiet New York landscape cutaway with fog-softened hills or mountain forms.
Period detail: The frame may show 1938 8mm home-movie landscape footage, with no visible roads, buildings, clothing, vehicles, or landmarks to refine the period beyond metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing suggests a home-movie operator pausing to record weather and terrain rather than staged action or a named destination.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sky, fog or haze, distant hill ridges, soft mountain silhouettes, film gate borders, vertical scratches, and dust marks.
Film character: The clip carries a subdued 8mm texture with low contrast, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, vertical wear, and uneven exposure across the frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an atmospheric insert, weather transition, rural memory beat, or establishing cutaway for obscured terrain.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet outdoor landscape view, but the frames do not support identifying a specific mountain range, town, road, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and exact location identification still require normal archive review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1938 8mm New York foggy hills, vintage home movie mountain haze, or 1930s overcast rural landscape may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with 1938 New York landscapes, then with fog, overcast weather, and rural hill cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing distant hills or mountain forms partly obscured by haze beneath a flat gray sky. — Hazy ridgelines recede under a heavy, pale sky.

A static 1938 New York landscape frame with muted hills fading into fog and visible vertical film wear. — Muted hills sit behind a veil of fog and film scratches.

1938 8mm home-movie view of pale sky and low hill forms, with haze reducing detail across the landscape. — Low ridges are barely separated from the bright overcast sky.

A subdued New York landscape frame from 1938 showing hazy hills and a pale sky, with visible 8mm scratches and dust. — Fog flattens the hillside horizon while film scratches cross the frame.

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