New York USA-1938: Woman Walking Through Collapsed Structure

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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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Woman Walking Through Collapsed Structure — Clip Details

A 1938 8mm home movie clip from New York USA captures a scene of damaged property, showing weathered wooden planks and debris in a state of disrepair. The black-and-white footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, with a handheld camera movement revealing a collapsed structure. A woman in period attire walks through the wreckage, her figure partially obscured by the decaying wood and overgrown foliage. The scene evokes a sense of post-disaster quiet and historical decay, with natural light filtering through the ruins. This archival footage offers a poignant glimpse into mid-20th century urban life and structural damage, ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & whiteHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123039993

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 New York archival requests needing damaged property, debris, or weathered outdoor structures as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The frames may show an outdoor ruin or collapsed wooden structure, with period evidence coming mainly from the 1938 8mm black-and-white home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual home-movie viewpoint, lingering on plants, broken planks, stones, and debris rather than staging a formal record of the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy plants, rough wooden planks, scattered stones, overgrown brush, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that reinforce its original home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for damaged property, rural-edge decay, or archival aftermath imagery.
Historical context: The footage visually documents an outdoor area of disrepair without enough visible evidence to identify the cause, ownership, or exact setting beyond the supplied New York metadata.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright, location, and property-rights review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1938 New York 8mm damaged property, black-and-white home movie debris, collapsed wooden structure, and vintage outdoor wreckage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 New York footage, then broader home-movie scenes of damaged structures or outdoor debris.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close black-and-white 1938 home-movie view of leafy plants, with soft focus and dark film borders. — Leafy plants fill the opening frame before the damaged structure appears.

Black-and-white New York home-movie frame showing weathered planks, stones, brush, and bright sky around a damaged outdoor structure. — A tilted view shows broken wood, stones, and overgrowth in the damaged area.

1938 black-and-white home-movie frame of a collapsed or damaged wooden structure with stones, debris, brush, and dark frame borders. — Broken planks and scattered stones appear in a handheld view of the wreckage.

Close black-and-white frame of weathered wooden debris, rocks, twigs, and rough ground in the damaged outdoor scene. — The final frame moves closer to the rough boards, stones, and debris on the ground.

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