West Virginia-1938: The Public Garden Park In The City

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWest Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 West Virginia

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The Public Garden Park In The City — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sun-dappled garden scene in West Virginia. Lush green foliage frames vibrant pink and red flowering bushes, with sunlight filtering through the trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, timeless quality. A stone path and a distant bench appear in later frames, suggesting a quiet public park setting. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or vintage-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268104

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: 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: Helps fill a 1930s West Virginia public garden or park request for documentary, museum, education, or period atmosphere use.
Period detail: May show Depression-era public landscaping through mature trees, flowering shrubs, stone edging, a path, and a small bench, with no identifiable landmark visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers casually on sunlit foliage from a visitor's viewpoint, giving the scene the unstaged rhythm of a home-movie park stop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink-red flowering bushes, green shrubs, tree canopy, deep shade, sun patches, a stone path, and a small distant bench.
Film character: The scan has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, warm color drift, gate edges, and exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, location transition, seasonal insert, or reflective memory beat between human or city scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for public green space and ornamental planting in West Virginia home-movie footage from the late 1930s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s West Virginia garden footage, vintage 8mm public park scenes, flowering shrubs, and home-movie nature cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia clips, then broader public garden, park, and floral home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame showing flowering shrubs and leafy trees in a shaded public garden setting. — Flowering shrubs and tree canopy in dappled park light.

Soft 8mm view of pink-red shrubs and green foliage in a West Virginia garden or park, with no people visible. — Dense flowering bushes sit beneath sunlit foliage.

West Virginia garden scene with flowering bushes, green shrubs, stone path, and a small bench visible in the distance. — A path and distant bench appear beyond the flowering shrubs.

Late-1930s home-movie frame of a shaded West Virginia public garden with flowering shrubs, green bushes, and a pale path. — Flowering bushes border a pale garden path in shade.

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