West Virginia-1938: Freshly Cut Grass in Private Backyard with Gentle Wind

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

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Freshly Cut Grass in Private Backyard with Gentle Wind — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched private backyard in West Virginia. The view, framed by dark tree trunks and foliage, reveals a freshly mowed lawn with a soft golden hue. A slight breeze rustles the grass and surrounding trees, creating gentle movement across the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural light, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment from a mid-20th century American home. Ideal for historical, documentary, or editorial projects seeking authentic period atmosphere.

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: 127268109

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: 1930s West Virginia home-movie yard footage for editors needing a quiet domestic exterior, rural-residential atmosphere, or seasonal backyard cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a maintained private lawn with mature plantings, shaded trees, and simple garden edging rather than identifiable landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on an unstaged backyard view, preserving the ordinary texture of a home environment without people, posing, or directed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sunlit mowed lawn, dark tree trunks, hanging foliage, shrubs, a low flower border, deep shade, and soft wind movement.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, slight gate softness, and uneven exposure that give the yard scene authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, domestic exterior insert, pastoral transition, or quiet atmospheric cutaway within a family-history sequence.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it offers context for an ordinary landscaped yard in West Virginia in 1938 without documenting a public event or named property.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are indicated, but copyright and any property-context questions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 West Virginia backyard, 8mm home movie lawn, vintage grass and trees, rural domestic exterior, and home garden wind.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 West Virginia home exteriors, and then with quiet yard, garden, or rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm home-movie view of a bright mowed backyard seen through dark trees and garden shade. — A freshly cut lawn is seen from shade, with trees and shrubs framing the yard.

A sunlit West Virginia backyard lawn in 1938, partly obscured by dark trees and leafy garden growth. — The lawn remains bright while the camera looks out from a shaded edge of the yard.

West Virginia home-movie frame showing a mowed backyard, shaded tree, leafy plantings, and a hanging planter-like shape. — A shaded tree and hanging object frame the mowed lawn and garden plantings.

A 1938 8mm backyard view in West Virginia, with sunlit grass, shaded foreground trees, and dense garden foliage. — Trees and shade frame the final view across the bright lawn toward dense shrubs.

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