West Virginia-1938: Her Garden Before She Leaves Her Home

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

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Her Garden Before She Leaves Her Home — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a quiet garden scene in West Virginia. The footage shows a stone pathway winding through a lush garden with blooming purple flowers and tall green foliage. A white iris comes into focus in the foreground, while the camera gently pans across the natural setting. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a home garden. This archival footage offers authentic period detail for historical or editorial 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268155

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s home-movie requests needing a quiet West Virginia garden cutaway, domestic memory insert, or nature detail from real 8mm footage.
Period detail: The visible clues are modest garden plantings, a stone path, iris blooms, and soft color 8mm handling that may show a late-1930s home landscape rather than a public landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers and pans gently across flowers and path stones, giving the scene the unstaged attention of someone recording a familiar home garden before departure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone walkway, white iris flowers, purple low blooms, tall green leaves, dark garden soil, shaded foliage, and uneven handheld framing.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus shifts, gate-edge darkness, muted color, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a reflective cutaway, transition between domestic scenes, garden memory beat, or visual pause within a 1930s family-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of planted domestic outdoor space in West Virginia, with no visible people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable public event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden footage, vintage home movie flowers, white iris close-up, stone path garden, and 1930s domestic nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia home exteriors, then broader 1930s garden, flowers, and family-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame showing a stone garden path, purple blooms, soil beds, and tall green foliage. — A stone path runs past low purple flowers and broad garden leaves.

White iris blooms stand near a stone path in a West Virginia garden, recorded on 8mm home-movie film in 1938. — White iris flowers come into view beside the garden path.

A close, soft-focus 1938 West Virginia garden view shows pale iris flowers, upright leaves, and paving stones. — The camera moves closer to pale iris blossoms and upright garden leaves.

A shaded West Virginia garden view shows stepping stones winding between foliage and light-colored flowers in 1938 8mm footage. — Stepping stones curve through a shaded garden with flowers and dense foliage.

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