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Colorado USA-1938: Dappled Light On Forest Path With Person Walking Away

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Dappled Light On Forest Path With Person Walking Away — Clip Details

COLORADO USA-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a sun-dappled forest path winding through tall pine trees. A person in a light blue jacket walks away from the camera along the dirt trail, their figure partially obscured by the deep shadows of the dense woodland. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting filtering through the canopy, creating a nostalgic and immersive atmosphere of a quiet nature walk in the 1930s.

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
124761007

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 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

  • forrest
  • trees
  • path
  • hiking
  • nature
  • dark
  • scene
  • forest
  • pathway
  • dappled
  • light
  • people
  • colorado USA
  • 1938
  • 1930s forest walk
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Colorado USA 1938
  • dappled sunlight
  • nature path
  • Super 8 home movie
  • old film footage
  • historical nature
  • forest hiking
  • 1930s nostalgia
  • archival film
  • vintage color film
  • woodland scene
  • classic home movie
  • retro footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • outdoor recreation
  • historic footage
  • vintage nature
  • old film grain

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1930s Colorado home-movie requests needing an outdoor forest walking insert, nature-travel cutaway, or quiet personal-memory beat.
Period detail
The scene may show late-1930s outdoor clothing and leisure walking, but the frames mainly reveal a wooded dirt path rather than specific dated objects.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged rear view of a person moving away from the camera through shade, consistent with casual family or travel filming.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a dirt forest path, tall tree trunks, dense shade, dappled sunlight, a blue-clad walking figure, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character
The 8mm image has warm color, heavy shadow, soft focus, visible grain, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short transition, reflective cutaway, or memory beat between outdoor travel, hiking, or family-reel sequences.
Historical context
The clip gives a small-scale view of leisure walking in a Colorado woodland, with no visible landmark or event identifying the exact setting.
Research note
A person is visible from a distance with no clear facial detail, so likeness review may still be needed while copyright and privacy rights are separate checks.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1938 Colorado 8mm forest path, vintage home movie hiking, sun-dappled woods, and person walking away on trail.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Colorado 1938 outdoor footage, then broader 1930s forest, hiking, or nature-walk material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Colorado 8mm frame showing a shaded dirt path through tall forest trees with bright patches of sunlight.
A narrow dirt path winds through dark trees and spotted sunlight.
1938 Colorado home-movie frame of a wooded trail, dark tree trunks, and sunlight breaking across the dirt path.
The forest path is partly lit while surrounding trees remain in shadow.
1938 Colorado 8mm frame with a blue-clad person seen from behind on a shaded dirt path in the woods.
A person walks away from the camera along the dim forest path.
1938 Colorado home-movie frame showing a person from behind near the edge of a shadowed forest trail.
The walking figure is partly obscured by shadow at the side of the trail.

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