Cumberland Maryland-1938: Grassy Hill With Trees and Boy on Platform

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

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Grassy Hill With Trees and Boy on Platform — Clip Details

A young boy in swim trunks sits on a wooden platform overlooking a grassy hill in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1938. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a quiet moment in a sun-dappled backyard with trees and shrubs framing the scene. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing a natural clearing and the boy’s contemplative posture. The grainy black-and-white image evokes a nostalgic, timeless quality, characteristic of vintage home movies from the late 1930s.

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: 127266181

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: 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

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: 1930s Maryland home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for quiet outdoor childhood and backyard leisure scenes.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s casual swimwear and a simple wooden platform in a landscaped grassy setting, supported by the 1938 Cumberland metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The visible boy sits still on the platform while the camera observes and pans, giving the scene an unstaged family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy hill, leafy trees, shrubs, a wooden platform, dappled sunlight, and a seated boy in swim trunks.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows coarse grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge darkness typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, outdoor cutaway, or quiet transition within a sequence about childhood, summer, or family life.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest view of outdoor domestic leisure in a grassy Maryland setting without identifying a specific property or event.
Research note: A minor or young person appears visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Cumberland Maryland home movie, boy on wooden platform, grassy hill trees, and black-and-white 8mm backyard footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Cumberland or 1938 Maryland footage, then with outdoor childhood and summer home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 Cumberland, Maryland home-movie footage, a boy sits on a wooden platform overlooking a sunlit grassy hill with trees. — A boy sits quietly on a wooden platform at the edge of a grassy, tree-lined slope.

The camera pans across the Cumberland yard, showing a grassy hill, trees, shrubs, and part of the wooden platform at the frame edge. — The pan moves across the open grassy hill, with trees and shrubs filling the background.

A black-and-white 8mm frame shows the grassy Cumberland hillside, surrounding trees, low shrubs, and a platform edge during the pan. — The frame holds on the landscaped slope and trees as the seated figure moves out of view.

Near the end of the pan, the frame shows a sunlit grassy clearing in Cumberland with trees, shrubs, and the platform partly visible. — The closing view emphasizes the grassy clearing and surrounding trees, with only the platform edge remaining.

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