Martinsburg West Virginia-1938: Snow Landscape With A Pine Tree In Front And A

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

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Snow Landscape With A Pine Tree In Front And A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a quiet winter landscape in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Snow blankets the ground and evergreen trees, with a large pine tree in the foreground and a gray building visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural light, conveying a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere. This archival black-and-white clip offers authentic period footage for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127266252

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: 1930s 8mm winter landscape footage for editors needing a quiet seasonal cutaway, place-setting insert, or memory beat tied to Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show a 1938 residential or institutional winter setting, with snow-covered evergreens and a plain building partly visible behind the trees.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a home-movie glance out toward a snowy yard or grounds, lingering on weather, trees, and stillness rather than people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-laden pine branches, a white ground cover, smaller evergreens, bare winter trees, a distant gray building, and soft frame-edge vignetting.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with monochrome grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and gentle handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, a seasonal transition, a quiet pause between family scenes, or a visual memory beat for 1930s Appalachia.
Historical context: The scene documents an ordinary snowy landscape in Martinsburg, with evergreen plantings and a background building offering local winter atmosphere without identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Martinsburg snow landscape, 1930s West Virginia 8mm winter footage, home movie pine tree in snow, and black-and-white snowy yard.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1938 Martinsburg material, then West Virginia winter landscapes or 1930s home-movie weather cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Martinsburg, West Virginia home-movie frame showing a snow-laden pine tree, white ground, smaller evergreens, and a distant building. — A large pine tree stands under fresh snow with smaller evergreens and a background building beyond.

Snow-covered evergreen fills the right side of this Martinsburg winter frame, with open snow and smaller trees in the background. — The pine tree dominates the foreground as snow blankets the open ground and nearby evergreens.

The 8mm frame moves closer to the snow-laden pine, with bright snowy ground and dark evergreen branches filling the view. — A closer look at the pine shows layered branches weighed down by snow.

Final Martinsburg winter frame centered on the pine tree's lower snowy branches, with monochrome grain and a dark edge vignette. — Snow-covered lower branches fill the frame as the landscape falls into soft monochrome grain.

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