New York USA-1939: Two People Get Out Of An Old Fashioned Vehicle In Front Of A

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

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Two People Get Out Of An Old Fashioned Vehicle In Front Of A — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1939: Two people exit an old-fashioned automobile parked in front of a small suburban house. The black-and-white 8mm home movie captures a quiet residential scene with a young tree casting dappled shadows on the clapboard siding. The vintage car, likely from the late 1930s, features a rounded body and spoked wheels. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural film grain and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, everyday moment from the era. The house has a simple gabled roof and multi-pane windows, typical of suburban architecture of the time. This authentic archival footage offers a glimpse into mid-20th century American life, perfect for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

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: 124762680

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 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 for 1930s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet suburban arrival, residential exterior, or period automobile cutaway.
Period detail: The clapboard house, multi-pane windows, gabled roofline, and rounded late-1930s-style automobile support the stated 1939 period context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film feel, watching people step from a parked car outside a modest house rather than presenting a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small clapboard house, gabled roof, multi-pane windows, young tree, sidewalk, hedges, parked automobile, and two people near the car.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, grain, high-contrast exposure, slight jitter, and contact-print framing that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, domestic transition, arrival beat, or visual memory of everyday prewar suburban life.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary residential space and car travel in a New York setting, without showing identifiable landmarks or public events.
Research note: People are visible but indistinct, and the residential exterior may require likeness or property review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 New York home movie, 1930s suburban house exterior, vintage automobile arrival, and black-and-white 8mm family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York residential clips, then broader 1930s automobile and suburban home scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing a small clapboard house, gabled roof, multi-pane windows, and tree shadows. — A small house exterior is seen through soft black-and-white 8mm framing.

1939 New York residential exterior with multi-pane windows, clapboard siding, roofline, and a tree close to the facade. — The camera holds on the house facade before the parked car appears.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a New York house exterior in 1939, with a tree and shadows across the clapboard wall. — Tree shadows move across the siding and windows of the small house.

1939 New York home-movie frame with a rounded vintage automobile, two indistinct people, sidewalk, hedges, and nearby houses. — Two people appear beside a parked automobile in a residential street scene.

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