Quebec-1938: Building on Empty Dirt Field

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Quebec Canada

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Building on Empty Dirt Field — Clip Details

QUEBEC-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a wide, desolate landscape under an overcast sky. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a flat dirt field stretching toward distant hills. A large, dark building with a flat roof and two visible vents appears on the right, standing alone in the open terrain. The grainy, color-bleached footage evokes a sense of quiet isolation and rural stillness from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267710

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: Quebec, Canada 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 Quebec archival requests needing a quiet rural or industrial-edge landscape cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s rural Quebec terrain, with an isolated low building, roof vents, open dirt ground, distant hills, and an overcast sky.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged, passing home-movie view, held at a distance as the landscape and building drift within the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an empty dirt field, low dark building, roof vents, distant hills, flat horizon, cloudy sky, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate shadows, and slight handheld instability that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, rural transition, isolation beat, or contextual cutaway within a 1930s Canada sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for open land and sparse built structures in Quebec without identifying a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-identification concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 Quebec 8mm landscape, rural building with roof vents, empty dirt field, overcast Canadian home movie, and distant hills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Quebec material, then broader rural building and empty landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Quebec home-movie frame showing an empty dirt field, low horizon, distant hills, and overcast sky through dark film borders. — A wide, sparse field stretches toward distant hills under a cloudy sky.

1938 Quebec landscape frame with open dirt ground, distant hills, overcast sky, and a dark building edge entering at right. — The open ground and far hills remain visible as a dark structure begins to enter the frame.

1938 Quebec home-movie frame showing a low dark building near an empty field, distant hills, and a cloudy sky. — A solitary low building sits at the edge of the empty field.

1938 Quebec frame showing a dark low building with roof vents, open dirt field, distant hills, and overcast sky. — The building with roof vents stands alone beside the broad, empty ground.

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