Virginia City California-1937: Large White House Surrounded By Grass And Trees

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

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Large White House Surrounded By Grass And Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a large white house in Virginia City, California, framed by leafy trees. The camera pans across the stately building with its distinctive blue-tiled roof and dormer windows, revealing its classic architecture. Sunlight filters through the branches, casting dappled shadows on the cream-colored facade. The scene transitions to a tranquil garden with a circular fountain, green lawn, and tall poplar trees against a distant mountain backdrop, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259931

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 exterior views of a large house, landscaped grounds, trees, and garden detail for documentary or educational period sequences.
Period detail: The dormer windows, pale facade, mature trees, lawn, and fountain may show an upscale residential or estate setting recorded in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the house exterior and garden rather than staging action or identifying occupants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale multi-story house, dormer windows, tree trunks, bare branches, lawn, garden path, circular fountain, and tall poplar-like trees.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, warm color shift, uneven exposure, gate edges, and contact-print framing that preserve the texture of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, quiet transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat between broader 1930s travel or domestic-life scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a landscaped house and garden environment without showing residents, vehicles, signs, or activity that would support more specific social claims.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the house and grounds may require separate property or location review; copyright and property permissions are distinct questions.
Research search match: Search matches include 1930s 8mm house exterior, vintage home movie garden fountain, Virginia City California house, and old film trees and lawn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1937 Virginia City California material, then with 1930s house, garden, trees, and estate exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm frame of a pale house in Virginia City, California, seen through trees with dormer windows and a dark roofline. — A large pale house is viewed through trees, with upper windows and branches crossing the facade.

The camera holds on the Virginia City house exterior, with tree trunks and branches partially blocking the pale facade and roof. — Tree trunks and branches frame the house exterior, including windows and part of the roof.

A closer 1937 home-movie view shows dormer windows, a pale upper facade, and trees crossing the house exterior. — Dormer windows and upper walls of the house appear behind intersecting tree branches.

The scene shifts to landscaped grounds in Virginia City, California, with green lawn, garden path, fountain edge, tall trees, and distant hills. — A landscaped garden area shows lawn, a pale path, a fountain edge, trees, and hills beyond.

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