New York USA-1938: Young Men Hanging Out On A Rock In The Woods

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

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Young Men Hanging Out On A Rock In The Woods — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: A grainy, black-and-white 8mm home movie captures a group of young men in casual attire relaxing on a rocky outcrop near a wooded area. One man sits on the rock while others stand nearby, engaged in conversation. The footage shows natural movement and interaction, with the men dressed in sweaters and hats typical of the late 1930s. The scene is framed with a soft vignette, characteristic of vintage Super 8 film, and features visible film grain and slight motion blur. The setting appears to be a quiet riverside or park, evoking a sense of camaraderie and leisure from a bygone era.

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: 123040187

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 casual male friends in a wooded park or riverside setting for documentary inserts or social-history context.
Period detail: The sweaters, caps, loose trousers and 8mm black-and-white home-movie look support a late-1930s leisure scene, while the exact park or waterway is not identifiable from the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged behavior as young men stand, sit and shift around a rocky outcrop, apparently talking or resting during an informal outdoor outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include young men, caps and sweaters, large rocks, leaf-covered ground, bare branches, a water edge or open bank, smoke or haze, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, dark vignetting, uneven exposure and handheld movement that give the scene strong physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, transition, or social-life insert for 1930s youth, friendship, outdoor recreation or New York home-movie sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests informal leisure among young men in a natural public setting, without enough evidence to identify a specific event, institution or landmark.
Research note: People are visible and faces may be partly identifiable, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, private property or music are apparent from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s New York 8mm home movie, young men on rocks in woods, friends outdoors vintage footage, and Depression-era park leisure film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1938 New York outdoor scenes, and then with broader themes of friends, woods, rocks and informal recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

Very dark 8mm frame from the 1938 New York clip, showing mostly film grain and shadow with no clearly readable figures. — A nearly black transitional frame with visible grain and shadowed film texture.

Young men in caps and casual clothing sit and stand on a rocky outcrop in a wooded New York setting, filmed in black-and-white 8mm. — Men pause on a rock outcrop beside bare branches and a likely riverside or park edge.

Men in 1930s casual clothing stand close together among rocks and leaf litter in a wooded New York outdoor scene. — Figures cluster near the rocks as smoke or haze softens the lower part of the frame.

Two young men stand beside rocks and leaves in the wooded 1938 New York home-movie scene, with another figure partly cropped at left. — Men stand and look down near the rocky ground, framed by the soft edge of the 8mm image.

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