New Jersey-1938: The Mountain And The Calm Sea By Night

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 New Jersey

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The Mountain And The Calm Sea By Night — Clip Details

NEW JERSEY-1938: This 8mm home movie captures a serene night scene of a dark mountain silhouette against a calm sea, viewed through the grainy texture of vintage film. The footage begins with a dark, textured frame, transitions to a faint light on the horizon, and reveals the mountain and water under a starless sky. The grainy black-and-white image, with its soft focus and subtle film imperfections, evokes a quiet, nostalgic mood. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of a peaceful coastal landscape from the late 1930s, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & whiteNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267265

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: New Jersey, 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 New Jersey coastal night footage for documentary inserts needing a quiet shoreline, horizon, or landscape mood beat.
Period detail: The frames show no dated structures or objects, so the 1938 context rests on supplied metadata rather than visible period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a patient home-movie viewpoint, holding on a dark ridge and calm water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark hillside silhouette, calm water, dim horizon bands, night sky, heavy grain, soft focus, and frame-edge shadows.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white image carries dense grain, low exposure, soft focus, and gate-edge darkness that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a contemplative cutaway, nighttime transition, coastal memory beat, or pause between more active scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, it suggests a quiet shoreline observation in late-1930s New Jersey, with no visible people, buildings, vehicles, or public event.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and underlying reel rights still require normal review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New Jersey 8mm coast, black-and-white home movie shoreline at night, calm sea and mountain silhouette.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1938 New Jersey footage, then broader coastal night, water, or landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame showing a dark shoreline or hillside across calm water beneath a dim night sky. — A low-exposure view of dark water and a distant hillside silhouette.

1938 New Jersey coastal frame with calm water, a dark ridge line, and soft grain in low night exposure. — Calm water sits below a dark horizon and ridge line.

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame of a dark hillside or mountain silhouette with faint water and sky bands. — A broad dark hillside silhouette crosses the frame in low light.

1938 New Jersey coastal home-movie frame showing a rounded dark ridge over calm water in grainy night exposure. — A rounded ridge silhouette rises above calm water in the final frame.

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