Martinsburg West Virginia-1938: Video Of A Pine Tree With Several Inches Of New

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationMartinsburg, West Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 West Virginia

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Video Of A Pine Tree With Several Inches Of New — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1938, showing a snow-covered pine tree in a quiet winter landscape. The black-and-white footage captures the tree heavily laden with fresh snow, its branches drooping under the weight, set against a backdrop of bare winter trees. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight vignetting, and the natural imperfections of aged home movie stock. This archival footage evokes a sense of stillness and nostalgia from a cold, snowy day in the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266213

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: Martinsburg, West Virginia, 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 winter atmosphere, documentary cutaways, and editorial scenes needing quiet snow-covered landscape footage from West Virginia.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm footage of a snow-laden evergreen and bare trees, with the 1938 Martinsburg setting supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering on a backyard or woodland winter detail without people, performance, or formal composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small pine or evergreen, heavy fresh snow on branches, a snowy ground bank, bare deciduous trees, dark frame edges, and film dust.
Film character: The footage carries soft black-and-white 8mm texture, visible grain, vignetting, slight exposure variation, and contact-print edge artifacts that signal original home-movie stock.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a winter insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between family or location scenes from the same period.
Historical context: The scene records an ordinary snowy landscape detail, offering visual context for domestic winter surroundings without supporting claims about a specific event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property context should still be checked before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Martinsburg West Virginia snow footage, 1930s 8mm winter landscape, vintage home movie evergreen tree, and black-and-white snow scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Martinsburg or 1938 West Virginia clips, and then broader 1930s winter home-movie landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Martinsburg home-movie frame with a snow-laden evergreen partly visible beside dark 8mm frame edges and film dust. — A snow-covered evergreen appears at the edge of an aged 8mm winter frame.

Snow-covered evergreen in Martinsburg, West Virginia, with bare trees behind it in black-and-white 8mm footage from 1938. — Fresh snow weighs down the evergreen branches against a bare winter backdrop.

1938 Martinsburg winter frame showing a small evergreen heavily coated with snow, with leafless trees and vignetting around the image. — The evergreen fills more of the frame, its branches layered with thick snow.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1938 Martinsburg showing a snow-laden evergreen set against leafless winter trees. — A quiet winter cutaway shows the evergreen under several inches of fresh snow.

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