New York USA-1939: A Woman Bundled Up Against The Cold Walks Down The Sidewalk

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

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A Woman Bundled Up Against The Cold Walks Down The Sidewalk — Clip Details

A woman in a long, fur-trimmed coat and hat walks down a snow-dusted sidewalk in a quiet residential neighborhood during winter. Shot on 8mm film in 1939, the footage captures her bundled form moving past bare trees and modest homes, with soft shadows stretching across the snow. The grainy black-and-white image, framed by film borders, evokes a nostalgic, intimate home movie feel. Her slow, deliberate pace and the stillness of the scene convey a quiet, everyday moment from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763026

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 documentary or museum edits needing late-1930s New York winter street life in an intimate home-movie register.
Period detail: The long fur-trimmed coat, hat, bare trees, snow-dusted sidewalk, and modest residential houses may show everyday cold-weather dress and streetscape in 1939 New York.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears aware of the camera as she walks toward it, giving the scene an informal family-film quality rather than a staged public event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bundled woman, snow on the ground, bare roadside trees, a quiet street, modest houses, porch details, and strong winter shadows.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture, soft focus, visible grain, frame borders, and slight exposure variation give the clip a physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter exterior insert, neighborhood transition, personal-memory beat, or period cutaway between broader 1930s scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents an ordinary residential sidewalk moment, emphasizing cold-weather clothing and quiet neighborhood space rather than a named landmark or event.
Research note: A recognizable adult face and residential exteriors are visible, so likeness and property-context review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 New York 8mm winter sidewalk, woman in fur-trimmed coat, Depression-era home movie street scene, and residential snow footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 New York winter exteriors, then broader home-movie scenes of bundled pedestrians and snowy streets.

Still Frames From This Clip

A bundled woman in a long coat walks along a snow-dusted residential sidewalk in New York, 1939. — Woman in winter clothing walks past a quiet residential street.

The woman continues down the snow-dusted sidewalk, framed by bare trees and modest houses in 1939 New York. — Bundled pedestrian continues along the winter sidewalk.

A closer view shows the bundled woman approaching the camera on a snowy sidewalk in a quiet New York neighborhood. — Closer view of the woman walking toward the camera.

Near the end of the clip, the woman is closer to the camera, bundled in a dark winter coat beside a snow-lined street. — The woman nears the camera in her winter coat.

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