New York USA-1939: The Camera Spans A White House With A Pretty Landscaping

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

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The Camera Spans A White House With A Pretty Landscaping — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in New York. The camera pans across a white clapboard house with classic windows and a covered porch, surrounded by lush green bushes and mature trees. Sunlight filters through the foliage, creating dappled shadows on the lawn and siding. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight vignetting, characteristic of amateur Super 8 recordings from the era. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century American domestic life and nostalgia.

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: 124762670

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1930s New York home-movie material of an American residential exterior as a domestic-life insert or period establishing detail.
Period detail: The clapboard siding, multi-pane porch windows, trimmed hedges, and mature yard may show late-1930s suburban residential design and landscaping.
Home-movie behavior: The brief pan has the observational feel of a family or visitor filming a house and garden without staging or visible occupants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white clapboard house, side windows, covered porch glazing, shrubs, hedges, lawn, tree branches, and a small outbuilding or garage.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, black-and-white contrast, edge vignetting, gate shadow, and handheld drift consistent with amateur physical-film footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, transition, memory beat, or exterior establishing shot for prewar domestic life.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for residential architecture and yard care in a New York setting, without showing people, street signs, or a named landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1939 New York 8mm house exterior, 1930s suburban home movie, white clapboard house, porch windows, and garden landscaping may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York exteriors, and then broader home-movie scenes of houses, yards, and gardens.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York 8mm frame showing a white clapboard house, side windows, hedges, trees, and a small outbuilding in the yard. — The pan begins on the house side, hedges, trees, and a small outbuilding behind the yard.

1939 New York home-movie frame of a white house exterior with porch glazing, trimmed hedges, trees, and dappled sunlight. — The camera moves across the house exterior, showing hedges, porch windows, and shaded lawn.

1939 New York 8mm frame with clapboard siding, narrow side windows, bright porch glazing, shrubs, hedges, and a walkway. — A closer portion of the pan emphasizes the siding, porch glazing, shrubs, and garden path.

Final 1939 New York frame showing bright porch windows, leafy shrubs, hedges, tree branches, and the shaded front of a white house. — The shot ends on the porch windows and dense landscaping along the front of the house.

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