West Virginia-1938: Flowering Shrubs With Big Bracts Of Healthy Bright Flowers

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

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Flowering Shrubs With Big Bracts Of Healthy Bright Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a lush garden scene in West Virginia. The camera pans across dense shrubs adorned with clusters of bright white flowers and prominent bracts, their vibrant blooms contrasting against dark green foliage. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. A stone path winds through the garden, adding depth to the composition. This authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana offers rich visual texture and period charm, ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 127268158

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: 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden footage can support documentary or educational requests for domestic-era landscape, flowering shrubs, and nonhuman home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1930s garden setting, with a narrow stone path and dense flowering shrubs rather than date-specific architecture or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged home-movie view of a garden, with the camera lingering on plants rather than people or formal landmarks.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white flower clusters, broad bracts, dark foliage, a stepping-stone path, garden soil, soft shadows, and frame-edge film borders.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it physical archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a nature cutaway, quiet transition, seasonal insert, or memory beat within a larger 1930s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for ornamental garden planting in a West Virginia home-movie record without showing people, work activity, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or botanical identifications should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden footage, vintage flowering shrubs, white blooms home movie, and 1930s American garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden material, then with 1938 West Virginia home movies, and then with broader vintage flora or domestic landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing white flowering shrubs and foliage beside a narrow stone garden path. — White flower clusters grow beside a shadowed stone path in the garden.

1938 West Virginia garden view with bright white blossoms, leafy shrubs, and part of a stone path at left. — The camera view shifts across dense white blooms and dark green shrubbery.

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame with white flower clusters and green leaves filling most of the garden view. — White flowering shrubs fill the frame, with foliage and soil visible underneath.

1938 West Virginia garden frame showing white blooms, dense shrub foliage, and the edge of a stone path. — Dense white blooms and green foliage continue along the garden path edge.

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