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Colorado USA-1938: Family Hiking Through a Forest Trail

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  • Year1938
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationColorado, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1933 Colorado

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Family Hiking Through a Forest Trail — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1938 captures a group of people hiking through a dense forest in Colorado. The footage shows a family or friends walking along a rocky, sun-dappled trail, surrounded by tall trees. The subjects, dressed in period-appropriate clothing, move steadily forward, with one woman in the foreground carrying a camera. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic framing of an 8mm home movie, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and outdoor adventure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124760969

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • 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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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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Topics & Keywords

  • woods
  • trees
  • people
  • fun
  • adventure
  • ready
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  • hike
  • objects
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  • 1938
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  • vintage 8mm film
  • Colorado forest hike
  • 1930s home movie footage
  • retro outdoor adventure
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  • vintage family vacation
  • historic hiking footage
  • 1930s Americana
  • archival 8mm film
  • old family footage
  • vintage hiking clip
  • 1938 Colorado
  • 8mm film grain
  • nostalgic family memory
  • vintage outdoor activity
  • classic 8mm footage
  • retro hiking
  • 1930s family life
  • vintage forest walk

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1930s U.S. home-movie requests needing outdoor family hiking, forest recreation, or Colorado travel material for documentary, museum, or educational edits.
Period detail
The clothing, 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and visible box-style camera may show late-1930s leisure travel and amateur filming practices.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has unstaged value as hikers walk toward the camera along a rocky wooded trail, with one woman carrying a camera as part of the outing.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include tall trees, a rocky dirt path, sunlit forest floor, several adult hikers, walking sticks, hats, and a handheld camera.
Film character
The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel transition, outdoor recreation cutaway, or memory beat for family vacation and hiking sequences.
Historical context
The scene offers visual context for prewar American leisure travel and group outdoor recreation without identifying the people or exact trail.
Research note
People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to copyright and source-rights checks.
Research search match
Useful searches include 1938 Colorado hiking home movie, 1930s forest trail 8mm footage, family hikers in woods, and vintage outdoor recreation film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado or 1938 travel clips, then broader 1930s hiking, camping, and family vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Colorado 8mm frame showing adult hikers approaching through tall trees on a rocky, sun-dappled trail.
Adult hikers move along a shaded forest path toward the camera.
Adult hikers continue down a Colorado forest path in 1938 home-movie footage, with faces and period clothing visible.
The group advances down the trail with dense trees and rocks behind them.
1938 Colorado home-movie frame of adults hiking through forest, including a front hiker with a camera at her chest.
A front hiker carrying a camera leads the group along the rocky path.
Adult hikers in 1938 Colorado forest footage pass near the camera, with rocks, tall trees, and walking sticks visible.
Two front hikers pass through the frame as the rest of the group follows.

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