Virginia City California-1937: View Of Yellow Car Parked In Front Of Grey And Brown Building

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationVirginia City, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Virginia City California

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View Of Yellow Car Parked In Front Of Grey And Brown... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a classic yellow sedan parked in front of a large, multi-story brick building in Virginia City, California. The building features ornate windows, a central entrance with a small awning, and a distinctive cupola with dormer windows. The footage, exhibiting natural film grain and slight color fading, shows the car from a low angle, emphasizing its rounded 1930s design. The scene is set on a clear day under a pale blue sky, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American architecture and transportation. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259869

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Virginia City, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s home-movie requests needing a brief exterior view of an American town building with a parked period sedan.
Period detail: The rounded yellow sedan, tall sash windows, mansard roofline, dormers, and cupola suggest a late-1930s streetscape supported by the 1937 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from across the street or sidewalk, giving a visitor-shot record of architecture and automobile placement rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow sedan, pale masonry facade, brown roof, dormer windows, central entrance canopy, cupola, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into Depression-era town or road-trip material.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for automobile travel and civic or commercial architecture in a small American town setting without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but property identification, location claims, and copyright status should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 8mm home movie street exterior, yellow 1930s sedan parked by ornate building, Virginia City California archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1937 Virginia City exteriors, then 1930s automobiles, streetscapes, and town architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Virginia City home-movie frame showing a yellow sedan in front of a pale building with ornate windows and a brown roof. — Yellow sedan parked outside the multi-story building facade.

1937 Virginia City exterior view centered on the building facade, dormers, tall windows, and small entrance canopy. — Ornate building facade with dormer windows and entrance canopy.

1937 Virginia City frame showing the central tower section, dormers, pale facade, and shadowed entrance canopy. — Central portion of the building with roof dormers and canopy below.

1937 Virginia City home-movie frame emphasizing the cupola and upper facade of the ornate multi-story building. — Cupola and upper facade framed against a pale blue sky.

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