New York USA-1939: A Road With A Bridge And A Farm With Hundreds Of Turkeys

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

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A Road With A Bridge And A Farm With Hundreds Of Turkeys — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a rural journey through New York. The footage begins with a view from a moving vehicle, showing a narrow road leading to a small bridge flanked by trees and utility poles. The scene transitions to a wide, open field where hundreds of turkeys roam freely behind a wooden fence, illustrating a quiet moment of farm life. The grainy black-and-white imagery, with visible film scratches and soft focus, evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse into mid-20th century Americana, perfect for documentaries, historical projects, 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: 124762883

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: 1930s New York rural home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for country roads, small bridges, and farm animal cutaways.
Period detail: The footage may show a narrow rural road, utility poles, a low bridge, open fields, and a fenced turkey flock consistent with late-1930s home-movie travel views.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged traveler’s glance from a moving vehicle before shifting to a farmyard view of turkeys gathered behind a fence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a road, bridge, trees, utility poles, open pasture, wooden fence posts, wire fencing, and a large flock of turkeys.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, frame-edge shadows, scratches, and exposure variation from the original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, a transition from road movement to farm life, or a brief memory beat for 1930s Americana.
Historical context: The scenes reflect everyday rural infrastructure and poultry farming as captured by a private home-movie camera, without identifiable people or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 New York 8mm rural road, home movie bridge, vintage turkey farm, and 1930s American farm animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1939 rural footage, then broader 1930s farm and road travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing a narrow road approaching a small bridge, with trees and utility poles along the roadside. — A rural road approaches a small bridge beside trees and utility poles.

A soft black-and-white 8mm view of a rural New York road nearing a low bridge, with utility poles standing beside the route. — The road continues toward a low bridge with poles lining the roadside.

1939 New York farm scene with many turkeys spread across an open field behind wooden fence posts and wire fencing. — Turkeys gather across an open pasture behind a simple farm fence.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a dense turkey flock near a wooden farm fence, with open pasture and a low tree line beyond. — A flock of turkeys clusters near the fence in an open rural field.

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