Virginia City California-1937: Eye Catching Fountain That Enlightens The Garden

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationVirginia City, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Virginia City California

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Eye Catching Fountain That Enlightens The Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil garden scene in Virginia City, California. The camera slowly pans across a circular stone fountain with a mushroom-shaped top, surrounded by a paved walkway and lush green grass. Tall poplar trees and dense evergreen foliage frame the view, with a distant hill visible under a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American landscaping and leisure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259943

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1930s 8mm garden cutaway footage for documentaries, museum displays, education projects, or commercial edits needing a quiet landscaped outdoor setting.
Period detail: The clip may show period garden landscaping through its circular stone fountain, clipped lawn, paved walk, tall trees, and distant hillside seen in color 8mm footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the fountain from a visitor or family-film perspective, favoring atmosphere and place rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a circular fountain basin, mushroom-shaped stone fountain, paved walkway, green lawn, tall poplar-like trees, dark evergreen foliage, and a distant hill.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm look with visible grain, slight blur, warm color saturation, and uneven exposure from the original small-gauge film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm insert, exterior transition, garden cutaway, or memory beat between more specific travel or family scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects a leisure or garden setting preserved in home-movie form, with landscaping and planted grounds as the main social context.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm garden fountain footage, vintage home movie landscaped grounds, circular stone fountain, and Virginia City California travel scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with other Virginia City California 1937 footage, then with vintage garden, fountain, travel, or landscaped-ground clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm frame from Virginia City, California, showing a circular stone fountain near grass, tall trees, and a distant hillside. — Garden fountain with lawn, tall trees, and hill in the background.

1937 8mm frame showing the fountain shifted right in the garden view, with lawn, trees, and hillside beyond. — Stone fountain seen across the basin, framed by grass and trees.

1937 8mm frame from the garden scene, showing the stone fountain, basin, bright grass, tall trees, and dark foliage. — Closer garden view of the fountain and surrounding planting.

Late frame of the 1937 Virginia City garden clip, with the fountain in shade and trees and hillside beyond the lawn. — Fountain partly shaded at the edge of the garden basin.

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