Martinsburg West Virginia-1938: The Icy Top Of A Pine Tree Outdoors

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

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The Icy Top Of A Pine Tree Outdoors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a snow-covered pine tree in a quiet winter landscape. The black-and-white footage shows a dense evergreen heavily laden with snow, its branches drooping under the weight. The scene is still and serene, with a soft, grainy texture characteristic of early 20th-century amateur film. The dark frame borders suggest a classic home movie projection, evoking a sense of nostalgia and historical charm. This archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into a snowy day in Martinsburg, West Virginia, preserved in its original, unedited form.

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: 127266676

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 requests needing a quiet winter nature cutaway from Martinsburg, West Virginia for documentary, museum, educational, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frame, rounded gate edges, and static view support a late-1930s amateur-film reading, while the visible subject is limited to snow on an evergreen.
Home-movie behavior: The shot has the unstaged quality of someone briefly filming a snowy outdoor detail from a fixed home-movie viewpoint, with no people or directed action visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snow-loaded pine top, drooping evergreen branches, pale winter sky, soft focus, film grain, rounded frame edges, and dark vertical frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries early amateur 8mm texture through visible grain, slight softness, mild exposure variation, and dark gate borders around the winter scene.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short seasonal insert, quiet transition, winter memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between family, travel, or regional 1930s material.
Historical context: The scene documents a simple snowy outdoor view rather than a public event, offering environmental context for a Martinsburg winter home movie in 1938.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or identifiable private property are visible, though users should still clear copyright and confirm any location or reel-level rights separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 8mm winter home movie footage, snow-covered pine tree, Martinsburg West Virginia archival footage, and vintage black-and-white winter landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Martinsburg or 1938 material, then broader 1930s winter, snow, evergreen, or home-movie cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Martinsburg home-movie frame showing the icy top of a pine tree, its branches weighed down by snow against a pale sky. — Snow-laden pine branches fill the frame in a quiet winter outdoor view.

Black-and-white 8mm view from Martinsburg in 1938 showing a snow-heavy evergreen treetop framed by rounded home-movie borders. — The pine top remains still under a heavy layer of snow.

Martinsburg 1938 winter frame with a snow-covered pine top centered beneath a pale sky, showing visible 8mm grain and gate edges. — A static winter cutaway centers on the snow-covered evergreen.

Final 1938 Martinsburg frame showing the top of a pine tree with icy, snow-covered branches in a quiet outdoor winter scene. — Snow clings to the upper pine branches near the end of the short clip.

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