Colorado USA-1938: Video Of A Forest Then Camera Pans Down Showing A Lake With A

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

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Video Of A Forest Then Camera Pans Down Showing A Lake... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched forest scene in Colorado. Tall evergreen trees frame a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, their dark silhouettes contrasting against the light. The camera slowly pans downward, revealing a glimpse of a lake below, its surface shimmering with reflected light. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight instability, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana offers raw, unfiltered nature footage perfect for historical or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124760993

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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Colorado 8mm nature footage suited for documentary cutaways, regional landscape context, or reflective home-movie memory sequences.
Period detail: The visible scene offers few date-specific clues, though the 1938 metadata and 8mm color home-movie look support a late-1930s outdoor travel or family-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The slow handheld pan from treetops toward water gives the clip an unstaged visitor-shot viewpoint focused on scenery rather than people or activity.
What appears in frame: Tall evergreen trees, dark forest edges, bright blue sky, white clouds, shadowed trunks, and a small reflective lake area appear across the four frames.
Film character: The footage shows dense 8mm grain, saturated blue color, heavy shadow, slight exposure shift, and handheld instability characteristic of scanned amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature insert, landscape transition, establishing texture, or memory beat within a Colorado or vintage travel sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a scenic forest-and-water view from a private or amateur camera perspective, with no visible people, buildings, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any broader collection rights should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Colorado 8mm forest footage, vintage home movie lake view, evergreen trees sky, and amateur travel nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Colorado landscapes, then broader vintage forest, lake, mountain, or travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Colorado home-movie frame showing tall evergreens and dark forest edges beneath a bright blue sky with white clouds. — Tall evergreens frame a bright sky at the start of the forest pan.

Colorado forest scene with dark evergreen forms, shaded trunks, blue sky, and bright cloud areas visible in the upper frame. — The pan continues across shaded evergreens and open sky.

Late-1930s Colorado 8mm frame panning down through dark trees toward a small bright lake or reflective water area. — A small bright patch of water begins to appear beneath the trees.

The pan settles lower on a heavily shadowed forest view with a small shimmering lake or water surface visible through the trees. — A reflective lake surface is partially visible below the dark forest.

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