Colorado USA-1938: A Lady In Purple Attire Walks Slowly Down A Dark And Empty

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

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A Lady In Purple Attire Walks Slowly Down A Dark And Empty — Clip Details

A woman in a vibrant purple coat and matching hat walks slowly along a narrow dirt path through a dense, shadowy forest in Colorado, USA, in 1938. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her solitary journey from a fixed perspective as she moves away from the camera, her figure gradually receding into the dark woods. The scene is enveloped in deep shadows and dappled sunlight, creating a moody, atmospheric, and slightly eerie ambiance. The vintage quality of the Super 8 home movie, with its characteristic grain and color saturation, evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 124761003

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Colorado home-movie requests needing a solitary woman walking through wooded terrain for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The woman's knee-length purple coat and matching hat may show late-1930s dress, while the wooded dirt path offers limited built-environment clues.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel as the subject walks slowly down the path, first facing the camera and then receding into the trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in purple attire, a narrow dirt path, dense trees, dappled sunlight, deep forest shadow, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, soft focus, heavy shadow, visible grain, and uneven exposure that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, transition, or reflective memory beat suggesting travel, solitude, or movement into a wooded landscape.
Historical context: The scene documents a dressed adult woman in an outdoor Colorado setting, with social context limited to leisure or travel behavior visible in the home movie.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, brands, private interiors, or children are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Searches for 1938 Colorado 8mm home movie woman walking in woods, lady in purple coat on forest path, or vintage travel footage in trees may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1938 travel footage, and then with broader themes of women walking, wooded paths, or moody home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 Colorado home-movie footage, a woman in purple attire stands on a narrow dirt path amid dark trees. — Woman in purple attire pauses on a wooded dirt path.

The woman in purple walks away from the camera on a wooded Colorado path, framed by dark trees and sunlight patches. — The woman walks deeper along the forest path.

The woman becomes harder to see in the dark wooded frame as she continues down the narrow Colorado path. — The figure recedes into a darker section of the woods.

Near the end of the 1938 Colorado clip, the woman is a small dark figure moving away through the wooded path. — The woman appears small as she continues into the trees.

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