New York-1939: Classic Black Sedan Drives Down Residential Street

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

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Classic Black Sedan Drives Down Residential Street — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a classic black sedan driving slowly down a quiet street in New York. The car, with its rounded fenders and chrome accents, moves from left to right past a residential building with clapboard siding. A person in dark clothing briefly appears near the front of the vehicle before stepping away. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, soft focus, and dark borders of Super 8 home movies from the late 1930s, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and automotive design.

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: 125454754

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 street-life requests needing a brief period automobile insert, residential cutaway, or home-movie transportation detail.
Period detail: The rounded fenders, running board, chrome trim, and boxy sedan profile may show late-1930s American automotive styling on a residential street.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged curbside perspective, with the car passing slowly and a briefly visible person near the front of the vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark sedan, rounded fenders, chrome bumper, street pavement, clapboard siding, exterior stairs, windows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, gate edges, and a contact-sheet feel consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transportation insert, period street transition, domestic neighborhood cutaway, or memory beat in a 1930s sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for everyday residential streets and private automobile use in New York during the late 1930s, based on supplied metadata.
Research note: A person is briefly visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 New York 8mm home movie car, late 1930s sedan on residential street, vintage automobile footage, and prewar street scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York residential footage, then broader 1930s automobile or neighborhood material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing a dark rounded sedan moving past clapboard siding, with a person briefly visible near the front. — A dark period sedan moves along a residential street as a person stands near its front end.

The sedan fills the frame in side profile while passing a residential facade with stairs.

1939 New York home-movie frame focused on the rear portion of a dark sedan, with stairs, windows, and soft film grain visible. — The rear half of the sedan passes through the frame against a residential building.

1939 New York frame showing the sedan's rear section moving out of view along a quiet residential street with dark film edges. — The sedan continues out of frame, leaving the residential wall and pavement visible behind it.

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