New York USA-1939: A View Of A Very Old Globe Showing Part Of The Earth

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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A View Of A Very Old Globe Showing Part Of The Earth — Clip Details

A grainy, black-and-white 8mm home movie from 1939 shows a close-up view of a vintage globe, likely in a home or classroom setting. The image is blurry and distorted, with visible film grain, scratches, and bright light reflections on the glass surface. The camera appears to be handheld, with slight movement, focusing on the textured surface of the globe as it rotates slowly, revealing parts of the Earth's continents. The overall mood is nostalgic and historical, capturing a moment of mid-20th century Americana.

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: 123041114

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 1676 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jane
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: new york,washington
Date: 1939 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: 1930s New York 8mm footage suited to documentary inserts needing an archival close view of a globe or world-map object.
Period detail: The close framing may show an older globe surface, with no visible people, brands, room details, or identifiable New York landmarks in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a private, observational home-movie quality through its close focus, slight movement, and attention to a household or classroom object.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rounded globe surface, faint map lines, dark frame borders, bright light reflections, soft focus, scratches, and film grain.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan has heavy grain, soft exposure, gate edges, scratches, and blur that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat suggesting world geography, study, travel, or historical reflection.
Historical context: The footage places a globe as a period object within 1939 home-movie material, without enough visible context to identify the room or exact use.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright status and any object-related claims still require review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s 8mm globe close-up, black-and-white home movie world globe, vintage geography object, and New York 1939 archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York material, then broader globe, classroom, map, travel, or world-history cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm New York footage showing a blurred close view of a globe surface with light reflections, grain, and gate edges. — A soft close-up frames the rounded surface of a globe with bright reflected light.

Close 1939 New York 8mm view of the globe surface, with map texture partly obscured by blur, dust, and reflected light. — The globe remains close to the lens, with faint map detail and visible film wear.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1939 New York showing a softly focused globe close-up with rounded edge and reflected light. — A rounded portion of the globe fills the frame under soft reflected light.

Final sampled 1939 New York 8mm frame showing the globe in close-up, with faint cartographic markings and bright reflections. — The globe surface stays abstracted by blur, grain, and reflected highlights.

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