Cumberland Maryland-1938: A Stone-Walled Garden Path With Tall Grasses

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCumberland, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Cumberland Maryland

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A Stone-Walled Garden Path With Tall Grasses — Clip Details

CUMBERLAND MARYLAND-1938: A serene black-and-white view of a stone-walled garden path, captured on 8mm film. Tall grasses and leafy plants frame a brick walkway leading toward a dense tree line. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment from a mid-20th century home movie. The scene is still, with no people or movement, emphasizing the peaceful, timeless quality of a private garden.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266103

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: 1938 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: Cumberland, Maryland, 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 a quiet Cumberland, Maryland garden cutaway or residential landscape insert.
Period detail: The stone retaining wall, brick walkway, dense planting, and black-and-white 8mm texture may show a late-1930s domestic garden setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a still garden view, preserving an unstaged home-movie observation of place rather than an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick path, low stone wall, tall grasses, leafy shrubs, tree canopy, garden stakes, and soft frame-edge vignetting.
Film character: The clip has black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm exterior cutaway, memory beat, transition, or visual pause within a 1930s family or place sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest view of planted outdoor space in Cumberland without showing people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Cumberland Maryland 8mm garden footage, black-and-white home movie walkway, stone wall garden path, and 1930s outdoor cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Cumberland material, then broader 1930s garden, walkway, and home landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1938 Cumberland garden view with a brick path leading toward a low stone wall and dense planting. — A brick garden path leads toward a low stone wall under leafy trees.

Soft black-and-white 8mm view of a Cumberland garden path bordered by tall grasses, shrubs, and a low stone wall. — Tall planting frames the walkway and stone garden wall.

1938 black-and-white home-movie frame showing a planted garden walkway and low stone wall in Cumberland, Maryland. — The path, grasses, and stone wall remain in a steady garden composition.

Blurred black-and-white 8mm frame of a Cumberland garden path approaching a stone wall among dense planting. — Motion blur softens the garden path and wall near the end of the clip.

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