New York USA-1938: People Hiking Through Wooded Forest

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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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People Hiking Through Wooded Forest — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1938: People hike through a wooded area in this grainy, black-and-white 8mm home movie. The footage captures individuals walking along a forest path, partially obscured by bare tree branches in the foreground. The subjects wear period-appropriate clothing, including hats and coats, suggesting a cool day. The camera remains mostly static, offering a candid, observational view of a recreational outing. The film shows signs of age with visible grain, scratches, and light leaks, enhancing its authentic vintage feel. This archival footage provides a nostalgic glimpse into 1930s outdoor leisure activities.

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: 123040312

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: Supports requests for 1930s New York home-movie footage of outdoor recreation, hiking, wooded paths, and informal social leisure for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: Clothing visible in the frames, including brimmed hats, coats, and skirts, may show late-1930s casual outdoor dress in a cool wooded setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged group movement through brush and trees, with people partially obscured as the camera watches from a candid home-movie position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hikers, bare branches, wooded ground, coats, hats, skirts, a path-like slope, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm look with soft focus, high contrast, scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for 1930s outdoor leisure, family outings, or recreational walking.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects informal outdoor social activity in a wooded area, without enough evidence to identify the specific park, group, or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible but not individually identified, so likeness and context review may still be needed separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New York 8mm hiking, 1930s home movie woods, vintage hikers, and black-and-white outdoor recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with New York 1938 home movies, then with broader 1930s hiking, woods, and leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New York home-movie footage, hikers in coats and hats appear among bare branches on a wooded slope. — Hikers are partly hidden by trees as they move through the woods.

A hiker in period outdoor clothing moves through brush and bare branches in the 1938 New York wooded scene. — A figure bends or steps carefully through brush in the wooded area.

Overexposed 8mm footage shows people in hats and coats partly obscured by foreground branches in a New York woods outing. — Branches obscure several hikers in a bright, worn frame.

A group of hikers in 1938 New York appears behind bare branches, with hats and layered clothing visible despite heavy exposure. — The group remains partly obscured by branches as the shot fades bright.

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