New York-1939: Woman in Coat Stepping from Car to Meet Man

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

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Woman in Coat Stepping from Car to Meet Man — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1939: A woman in a long, smartly tailored coat steps out of a vintage automobile, her high heels clicking on the pavement. She walks toward a man in a long coat, their figures framed by the soft grain of 8mm film. The scene captures a moment of quiet interaction on a city street, with other elegantly dressed individuals nearby. The black-and-white footage, marked by film grain and soft focus, evokes a sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity, offering a glimpse into everyday life in 1939.

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: 125454977

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 brief home-movie footage of well-dressed adults arriving by automobile.
Period detail: The long coats, heeled shoes, formal street dress, and rounded automobile styling support the late-1930s period noted in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged sidewalk moment as a woman steps from a car and approaches a man while other adults stand nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark vintage automobile, adults in long coats, a sidewalk edge, bare ground or park-like verge, heeled shoes, and soft street shadows.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm footage with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight frame drift gives the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, arrival beat, social cutaway, or memory transition within a 1930s urban sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests formal public dress and everyday social movement on a city sidewalk without identifying the people or specific street.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed even where copyright or stock-footage licensing is addressed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 New York home movie street arrival, 1930s woman stepping from car, vintage automobile sidewalk greeting, and 8mm urban social footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1939 street scenes, then with 1930s arrivals, greetings, and formal-dress urban life.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York home-movie footage, a smartly dressed woman stands beside a dark vintage automobile as other adults gather nearby. — A woman in a tailored coat steps away from a parked automobile on the sidewalk.

Adults in long overcoats stand near the curb or sidewalk in 1939 New York, with part of a vintage automobile visible at the edge. — Several adults gather on a sidewalk beside an automobile, partly obscured by the film frame edge.

A woman in a dark coat walks toward a taller man in a long coat on a New York sidewalk, with another adult partly visible nearby. — The woman approaches a man in a long coat during a quiet sidewalk interaction.

The woman and man stand close together on a New York sidewalk in the 1939 home-movie scene, with other formally dressed adults nearby. — Two adults pause together on the sidewalk while others stand just outside the main frame.

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