New York USA-1938: Man Working in Overgrown Field

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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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Man Working in Overgrown Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a man working in a rugged, overgrown field in New York. The grainy black-and-white footage shows dense scrub brush and trees surrounding the worker, with a hilly landscape stretching into the distance. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the man's labor amidst the untamed natural environment. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—faint scratches, light leaks, and soft focus—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This raw, unfiltered glimpse into mid-20th century rural life offers authentic historical footage for documentaries, editorial projects, 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: 123039646

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: Useful for 1930s rural New York requests needing brief home-movie material of scrubland, wooded hills, and outdoor field work context without identifiable people.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show a rough rural field edge with brush, small trees, and wooded hills, consistent with the supplied 1938 New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a distant, observational home-movie view of overgrown terrain rather than staging action for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense scrub brush, bare branches, small trees, a pale hillside or field edge, wooded slopes, soft horizon lines, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The footage has high-contrast black-and-white 8mm texture, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, scratches, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief rural cutaway, landscape insert, transition into field labor, or memory beat for prewar upstate or rural New York atmosphere.
Historical context: The clip visually places the viewer in a rugged outdoor setting where brush, trees, and hillside terrain suggest rural land use or clearing activity.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or clear private property are visible in these stills, but copyright, location, and any property or likeness issues should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1938 8mm rural New York, black-and-white home movie scrub brush, wooded field landscape, or prewar outdoor labor context.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York rural footage, then broader 1930s field, forest, brush, and landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a distant wooded hillside, scrub brush, and bare branches in soft black-and-white focus. — A distant hillside and brushy field edge fill the opening frame.

1938 New York home-movie frame with dense scrub, small trees, and a pale sloped field or hillside beyond. — Brush and small trees obscure a pale sloping field in the distance.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from rural New York showing tangled brush, saplings, and a light hillside area beyond the foreground growth. — The frame looks across tangled brush toward a light hillside or field edge.

Final 1938 New York frame showing overgrown rural terrain, small trees, and a pale sloping area behind the brush. — Overgrown rural terrain continues in a static home-movie view.

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