Virginia City California-1937: Sets Of Water In A Pool At A Park With Planted

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Sets Of Water In A Pool At A Park With Planted — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil park scene in Virginia City, California. A calm pond with a small grassy island sits in the foreground, surrounded by mature trees and a low retaining wall. The footage shows subtle camera movement, revealing the quiet atmosphere of a mid-century public space. The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain evoke a strong sense of nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of a peaceful outdoor setting from the 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259993

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 public park pond cutaway, scenic transition, or period outdoor atmosphere for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show a maintained park landscape with a pond, low retaining walls, mature trees, and distant visitors, consistent with the supplied 1937 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot stillness: the camera observes water, trees, and passersby from across the pond without staging or formal composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pond, small grassy island, mature trees, paved or walled edges, distant people, reflected light on water, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the scene authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, location-establishing cutaway, reflective pause, or memory beat between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday park use and landscaped public space as seen through a family camera, without enough visual detail to identify specific buildings or events.
Research note: Distant people appear in the footage, so likeness review may be needed, while no readable logos, interiors, or private-property claims are visible from these frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1937 8mm park pond, Virginia City California home movie, vintage public park water scene, and 1930s amateur travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Virginia City California 1937 material, and then broader 1930s park, pond, travel, or public-space footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm park view in the supplied Virginia City, California metadata, showing a pond, grassy island, trees, and distant visitors. — A calm park pond is framed from across the water, with trees, a small island, and distant people near the opposite bank.

Home-movie frame of the supplied 1937 Virginia City, California park pond scene with trees, reflected water, and distant people. — The camera holds on the pond and opposite bank, where small figures stand near the shaded trees.

Faded 8mm frame from the supplied 1937 park scene, showing pond water, a grassy island, mature trees, and distant visitors. — A darker exposure shows the pond surface and planted island, with the opposite shore partly obscured by shadow.

Late frame of the supplied 1937 Virginia City, California park pond shot, with heavy shade, bright reflections, and small figures across the water. — The final view places the pond under heavier shade, with bright reflected water along the lower edge of the frame.

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