New York USA-1939: Moving Down A Suburban Street And Seeing The Garage And Front

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

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Moving Down A Suburban Street And Seeing The Garage And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood in New York. The camera moves steadily down a tree-lined street, revealing a modest house with large windows and a neatly trimmed hedge. A garage with a small window and a young tree in the yard come into view, bathed in natural sunlight. The footage features classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a nostalgic black-and-white aesthetic, evoking mid-century American domestic life.

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: 124762678

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1930s New York home-movie street footage for productions needing a short suburban residential exterior or domestic-neighborhood cutaway.
Period detail: The house facade, multi-pane windows, trimmed hedges, sidewalk, and detached garage may show late-1930s suburban residential design cues.
Home-movie behavior: The moving camera gives an unstaged passerby perspective, observing ordinary houses and yards rather than a posed family scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tree-lined sidewalk, hedges, house windows, front steps, a street sign, a garage wall, and a small yard tree.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, uneven exposure, contact-print framing, and visible grain from the original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, neighborhood transition, domestic memory beat, or exterior cutaway.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for everyday residential streetscape and yard maintenance in a New York suburban setting during the 1930s.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but house exteriors and location identity should still be reviewed for property and copyright considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 New York 8mm suburban street footage, black-and-white home movie house exterior, sidewalk, hedges, and garage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York residential exteriors, then broader 1930s suburban street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing a suburban house facade with large windows, leafy branches, hedges, and dark foreground framing. — A tree-shaded house front and hedge line appear as the camera moves along the street.

1939 New York suburban street view with a house facade, large windows, leafy trees, trimmed hedges, and a paved walk or drive at the right. — The moving view passes a hedge-bordered house with bright windows and tree cover.

1939 New York home-movie frame showing a suburban house front, hedge line, front steps, tree branches, and a street sign near the curb. — Front steps and a street sign enter the frame beside the hedge-lined house.

1939 New York residential exterior showing a bright garage or side structure with siding, small windows, a young tree, and hard sun shadows. — A sunlit garage or side building appears with a small tree in the yard.

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