Martinsburg West Virginia-1938: A Small House Near The Hills Filled With Snow

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

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A Small House Near The Hills Filled With Snow — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene winter landscape in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Snow blankets the ground, trees, and a small house nestled near a hillside. A bridge spans a frozen river or stream in the mid-ground, with bare branches framing the view. The grainy black-and-white footage evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a rural winter scene from 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: 127266462

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 documentary or editorial requests needing quiet winter home-movie footage of a snowy residential landscape in West Virginia.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show a late-1930s rural or small-town hillside setting, with a low house, bridge or road structure, bare trees, and deep snow.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds on an unstaged outdoor view from a sheltered vantage point, preserving how a home-movie maker recorded winter weather and place.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered ground, a small house, a hillside, bare trees, evergreen branches, a bridge or raised roadway, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm black-and-white texture, visible grain, modest exposure variation, and slight frame instability typical of home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a winter establishing insert, a regional transition, a quiet memory beat, or a cutaway between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for winter landscape and domestic surroundings in Martinsburg, without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm West Virginia snow scene, Martinsburg winter home movie, snowy hillside house, and Depression-era rural winter footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Martinsburg or 1938 West Virginia material, then broader snowy rural home-movie landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Martinsburg, West Virginia winter view with a small snow-covered house, hillside, bare trees, and dark 8mm frame edges. — A snowy house and hillside are seen through foreground trees in a quiet winter landscape.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a Martinsburg winter landscape, showing snow, a low house, hillside trees, and a bridge or raised roadway. — Snow blankets the ground, trees, and house near a hillside, with a raised structure in the mid-ground.

Martinsburg winter home-movie frame showing a snow-filled foreground, small house, hillside, and branches around the view. — A still winter view frames a small house below a snowy hillside and bare trees.

Late-1930s Martinsburg winter frame with snow-covered trees, a small house, hillside, and a dark speck in the film image. — The final frame holds on the same snow-covered residential landscape, framed by trees and film edges.

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