Virginia City California-1937: View Of Green Trees And Reflection Pools On A

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

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View Of Green Trees And Reflection Pools On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a serene park scene in Virginia City, California. The camera pans slowly across a tranquil pond with a small grassy island, reflecting lush green trees and dappled sunlight. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural shadows, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American outdoor setting. The scene is peaceful, with no people visible, focusing on the interplay of light, water, and nature.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259969

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 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

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 home-movie requests needing a quiet outdoor park or garden water feature as a documentary cutaway or atmospheric insert.
Period detail: The frames show landscaped water, stone edging, lawns, and mature trees, with few date-specific visual clues beyond the 1937 8mm source metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The slow visitor-shot view favors reflections, shade, and a small island, giving the scene the observational quality of a casual travel or family film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include reflective pond water, a small grassy island, stone banks, tree trunks, leafy shade, distant paths, and sunlit lawn.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, warm color, uneven exposure, and slight frame-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nature cutaway, a transition between travel scenes, or a memory beat around leisure, parks, or reflective water.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests a maintained public or garden landscape, but the sampled frames do not identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No logos or clear faces are visible in these sampled stills, but the people-visible flag and any location or property claims should be checked against the full clip and license.
Research search match: 1937 8mm home movie park pond, 1930s reflective pool footage, vintage California garden water scene, archival trees and lawn cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Virginia City California 1937 material, then with 1930s park, pond, and travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm frame of a landscaped pond, grassy island, tree shade, and stone border in the reported Virginia City California setting. — A shaded pond reflects trees around a small grass island and stone-lined bank.

Landscaped water feature with rippled reflections, a curved grass edge, trees, and bright lawn areas in vintage 8mm footage. — The camera view settles on rippled pond water, a curved island edge, and shaded trees.

Wide 8mm view of a park pond with a small grassy island, stone edging, tree shadows, and reflective water. — A wider view shows the island, stone bank, and trees mirrored in the pond.

Final sampled frame shows the pond, grass island, stone edging, and shaded trees in the reported 1937 Virginia City California home movie. — The pond and small island remain framed by trees, sunlit grass, and rippled reflections.

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