New York USA-1938: Snow-Covered Mountains by Water

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Snow-Covered Mountains by Water — Clip Details

A grainy, black-and-white 8mm home movie from 1938 captures a serene winter landscape in New York. The camera pans slowly across a snow-covered mountainous terrain beside a calm body of water, with bare trees lining the shore. The footage shows natural film imperfections, including scratches and dust, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a winter day in the early 20th century.

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: 123040274

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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for archival requests needing 1930s New York winter landscape footage as a documentary cutaway, seasonal insert, or quiet establishing shot.
Period detail: The visible clues are natural shoreline, snow cover, bare trees, and distant wooded slopes, with no buildings, roads, clothing, vehicles, or landmarks to date the scene visually.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on a wintry lakeside or riverside scene from a distant outdoor vantage rather than presenting a planned scenic film study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered banks, a calm body of water, leafless branches, wooded slopes, scattered rocks, and soft winter haze across the frame.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan shows heavy grain, low contrast, dust, scratches, vertical wear marks, and slight exposure fluctuation that give the landscape a physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter insert, reflective transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat between more specific New York or 1930s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet outdoor winter setting in New York without visible people or development, offering landscape context rather than evidence of a specific community or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any underlying collection restrictions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1938 New York winter landscape 8mm, snowy shoreline home movie, black-and-white mountain water scene, and vintage winter nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with confirmed 1938 New York winter footage, then with broader snowy shoreline, mountain, water, and quiet nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a snow-covered bank, bare branches, rocks, and a calm body of water in winter. — Snow-covered shoreline and distant wooded slope along still water.

1938 New York home-movie frame with a pale snowy bank, leafless brush, rocks, and water under soft winter haze. — A pale winter shoreline with bare brush above calm water.

1938 New York 8mm frame showing a soft-focus winter shoreline, scattered rocks, bare trees, and a narrow strip of water. — Soft-focus snowy shoreline with trees and rocks near the water.

1938 New York winter frame with leafless foreground branches, a snow-covered bank, wooded terrain, and calm water. — Bare branches frame a snowy bank beside still water.

Visually Similar Clips