Martinsburg West Virginia-1938: Child Walking Through Snow-Covered Yard

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

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Child Walking Through Snow-Covered Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a quiet winter scene in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Snow blankets the ground, trees, and a distant house, creating a serene, monochrome landscape. A child walks through the snow-covered yard, leaving footprints in the fresh powder. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, with a view framed by a dark border, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a cold winter day.

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: 127266502

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: 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s U.S. home-movie requests needing winter weather, residential snow scenes, or quiet outdoor cutaways from Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s residential landscaping, simple outbuildings, and winter clothing only at a distance, with no readable signs or dated objects visible.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home perspective on a snowy yard, including a distant person moving through the snow rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered lawns, bare trees, shrubs, a distant house or outbuilding, hillside woods, a path or tracks, and one small walking figure.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, high winter contrast, slight exposure variation, and dark frame edges that preserve its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, a memory beat, a seasonal transition, or a quiet cutaway within family-history or regional material.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for domestic outdoor life in a snowy West Virginia setting without supporting claims about a specific household or event.
Research note: People appear only at a distance, but likeness and property context should still be reviewed separately from any copyright or source-license assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 Martinsburg winter home movie, 1930s West Virginia snow yard, 8mm residential winter scene, and person walking in snow archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Martinsburg material, then broader 1930s winter, snowfall, and residential home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Martinsburg home-movie frame showing a snowy yard, bare trees, heavy shrubs, and a distant residential structure. — Snow blankets the yard, shrubs, and trees near a distant house or outbuilding.

Snow-covered Martinsburg yard in 1938, with a low structure at left, trees, shrubs, and a wooded slope beyond. — A snow-covered yard and hillside frame a low structure at the edge of the scene.

Soft 8mm frame of the same snow-covered Martinsburg yard, with shrubs in the foreground and trees fading into the background. — Soft-focus 8mm view of shrubs and trees covered by fresh snow.

A distant figure walks across a snow-covered yard in Martinsburg, with footprints or a narrow path leading uphill near a building edge. — A small figure moves through the snow near a path and the side of a building.

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