New York USA-1938: A Person Holding A Small Plant Showing It In Detail

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

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A Person Holding A Small Plant Showing It In Detail — Clip Details

A person's hand holds a small plant with delicate leaves and tiny white blossoms, captured in grainy black-and-white 8mm film from 1938. The shot focuses closely on the plant, highlighting its natural texture and form against a dark, shadowy background. The hand gently adjusts the stem, presenting the foliage as if for inspection or documentation. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and a vignette border—evoking a sense of personal memory and historical intimacy. This archival home movie clip offers a quiet, contemplative moment of nature observation.

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: 123039847

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet nature observation insert or archival close-up of a hand presenting a small plant.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm close-up photography with soft focus and heavy edge falloff, consistent with the supplied 1938 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The hand-held presentation of the stem feels informal and observational, as if someone is showing a plant specimen to the camera rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hand, a small stem, oval leaves, tiny pale blossoms, dense foliage, dark background shadows, film borders, and soft focus.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, uneven exposure, a vignetted gate, and slight softness that give the botanical detail a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature cutaway, memory beat, transitional insert, or visual pause within a 1930s domestic or observational sequence.
Historical context: The footage records a modest personal encounter with plant life, offering social context through its casual hand-held inspection rather than a public event or landmark.
Research note: A person’s hand is visible, so likeness review may still be relevant, while no logos, interiors, or private property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New York 8mm home movie plant close-up, hand holding flower stem, black-and-white botanical footage, and vintage nature observation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York material, then similar home-movie close-ups of plants, gardens, or informal nature study.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing dense plant foliage and small pale blossoms in soft black-and-white close-up. — Dense leaves and pale blossoms fill the upper-left frame.

1938 New York 8mm frame with leafy plant growth and tiny pale blossoms, seen through a dark vignetted film gate. — Leafy growth and small blossoms are seen in soft focus.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a hand holding a small plant stem with oval leaves before a shadowed leafy background. — A hand presents a small leafy stem for the camera.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a hand holding or steadying a leafy plant stem in a close botanical view. — The hand steadies the plant stem among surrounding leaves.

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