New York USA-1938: Person Walking Through Dense Woodland

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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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Person Walking Through Dense Woodland — Clip Details

A person in gray shoes walks through a dense, cluttered woodland, stepping over tangled branches and underbrush. Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a slow, deliberate pace through a natural, overgrown setting. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a first-person perspective moving through a shadowy forest, with the camera occasionally losing focus. The final frames dissolve into dark, indistinct static, suggesting film damage or the end of the reel. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet exploration and historical nostalgia.

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: 123040171

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: This 1938 New York 8mm home-movie clip can serve archival requests for Depression-era outdoor walking footage, woodland travel inserts, or quiet observational cutaways for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: Visible period detail is limited to black-and-white 8mm handling, soft focus, heavy grain, and a close view of plain light-colored shoes moving through dense underbrush.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged first-person home-movie quality, with the camera moving slowly through tangled branches and rough woodland ground rather than presenting a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: The frames show light-colored shoes, leafless branches, rough bark, tangled twigs, uneven forest floor, deep shadows, and later darkened film texture.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm character through pronounced grain, soft registration, high contrast, handheld framing, and a fade into dark, indistinct film texture near the reel end.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transitional memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway for movement through woods, searching, solitude, or archival outdoor passage.
Historical context: The clip visually documents an informal woodland walk in New York home-movie footage without enough visible evidence to identify the specific site, activity, or people involved.
Research note: No faces, logos, audible music, or identifiable private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location, and any underlying property considerations should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this clip when searching for 1930s New York 8mm woodland walk footage, first-person home movie in woods, tangled branches, or vintage forest cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1938 New York home movies, and finally with thematically similar walking, woodland, nature, or damaged-reel transition footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New York home-movie footage, light-colored shoes are seen from above moving through dense branches, brush, and uneven woodland ground. — Shoes moving through tangled woodland underbrush.

The frame shows a first-person view of shoes and lower legs amid dense woodland brush, with bare branches crossing the 1938 New York 8mm frame. — Shoes framed by bare branches in the woods.

The image becomes very dark and indistinct, with grainy 8mm texture and only faint shapes suggesting ground or reel-end exposure change. — Darkened, grainy transition near the end of the clip.

The final 1938 New York 8mm frame is mostly dark and grainy, with little readable subject detail beyond faint texture and exposure falloff. — Nearly dark final frame with visible film grain.

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