New York-1939: Man Walking Past 1930s Car at House

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Man Walking Past 1930s Car at House — Clip Details

A man in a long coat and hat walks past a vintage 1930s automobile parked outside a clapboard house in New York, 1939. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the man approaching the house, briefly interacting with the door, and then walking away. The grainy black-and-white image, with natural film grain and soft focus, evokes a nostalgic, everyday moment from the late 1930s. The classic car and period architecture enhance the historical authenticity of this home movie.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125454770

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 documentary or museum edits needing late-1930s New York home-movie street life with a man, clapboard house, and parked automobile.
Period detail: The long coat, brimmed hat, clapboard exterior, and rounded 1930s-style car may show everyday residential details from New York in 1939.
Home-movie behavior: The man walks near the doorway and past the parked car in an unstaged, everyday moment captured from a nearby home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a coat and hat, a clapboard house, doorway, windows, parked vintage car, front fender, and gravel or street surface.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet edge shadows that preserve the physical-film feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, neighborhood transition, period cutaway, or memory beat around domestic life and prewar automobiles.
Historical context: The footage offers residential context through clothing, house siding, and automobile design without identifying the specific household, street, or make of car.
Research note: A visible adult and exterior property require likeness and property review; copyright status is separate from personal or location permissions.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 New York home movie, man walking past vintage car, 1930s residential street, and black-and-white 8mm house exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel domestic scenes, then other New York 1939 footage, then related 1930s street, house exterior, and vintage car clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York home-movie footage, a man in a coat and hat stands near a clapboard house as a parked car partly enters the frame. — Man beside a clapboard house with a parked 1930s automobile partly visible.

A man in a long coat and hat stands near a clapboard house doorway while the front of a 1930s-style car is parked close by. — Man pauses near the doorway as the parked car fills the right side of the frame.

The man walks along the house exterior past the front fender and wheel of a parked vintage automobile in black-and-white 8mm footage. — Man in coat and hat walks past the parked car outside the clapboard house.

A parked 1930s-style automobile is seen in side view beside a clapboard house, with part of a doorway and window behind it. — The parked car remains beside the house as the figure is mostly out of view.

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