Virginia City California-1937: Pond In Rural Park With Trees And Dappled Sunlight

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

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Pond In Rural Park With Trees And Dappled Sunlight — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural park in Virginia City, California. A calm pond reflects the surrounding trees and a distant structure, with dappled sunlight filtering through the foliage. The footage shows a peaceful outdoor scene with a concrete edge along the water and a grassy bank, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century atmosphere. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene glimpse into a bygone era of leisure and natural beauty.

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: 127259998

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm home-movie cutaway for productions needing a quiet rural park pond scene in Virginia City, California.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1930s leisure landscape, with a concrete pond edge, open grass, mature trees, and a small distant structure visible through foliage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a visitor pausing to record shade, water, and movement around a park pond rather than a posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a still pond, curved concrete edge, grassy bank, dense trees, dappled sunlight, a distant structure, and a small human figure near the right edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, dense contrast, color shift, gate edges, and visible grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, location transition, reflective cutaway, or memory beat between more active travel or family scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of outdoor recreation and park scenery, but the frames do not identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: People appear small and not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, location, and any property permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s 8mm park pond, Virginia City California home movie, rural pond cutaway, and vintage shaded landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1937 Virginia City California footage, then broader 1930s park, pond, and rural leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm view of a shaded pond in Virginia City, California, with trees, reflected water, grass, and a pale concrete edge. — A quiet park pond sits under trees with sunlight on the bank and water.

1937 8mm park pond scene in Virginia City, California, with shaded trees, a concrete border, grass, and a small person near the right edge. — A small figure appears near the right side of the shaded pond scene.

Virginia City, California park pond in 1937, with soft 8mm color, a grassy bank, trees, and a distant small figure by the water. — The camera holds on the pond as trees cast shade across the grass and water.

End frame of a 1937 8mm pond view in Virginia City, California, showing shaded water, grass, trees, and a small figure at right. — Trees and grass frame the pond, with a small figure partly visible near the right edge.

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