West Virginia-1938: A View Of Flowers And Grass

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

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A View Of Flowers And Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil garden scene in West Virginia. The footage shows lush greenery, blooming white and yellow flowers, and a stone structure in the background. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful view of nature with soft focus and natural light. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and warm color tones, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This clip is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127268186

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 garden footage suited to documentary cutaways, period atmosphere, nature inserts, or memory sequences needing quiet outdoor detail.
Period detail: The view may show a maintained garden with iris-like white blooms, low fencing or plant supports, and a small stone or masonry feature consistent with an older residential landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flowers from a fixed home-movie vantage point, valuing the garden as a personal place rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall white flowers, yellow blossoms, dense greenery, garden stakes or fencing, a stone or masonry structure, and soft shaded background foliage.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, warm faded color, gate shadows, and slight frame variation that give the garden view its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, seasonal transition, rural memory beat, or visual pause between more narrative 1930s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a small domestic or community landscape detail from the 1930s, showing ornamental planting and outdoor surroundings without identifying people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property context, and exact garden identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden, 1930s home movie flowers, vintage garden cutaway, and archival footage of blooming plants.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1938 West Virginia outdoor scenes, and then with broader 1930s garden or nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a garden bed with tall white blooms, yellow flowers, dense foliage, and a masonry feature in the background. — Tall garden flowers and greenery fill the frame, with a small masonry feature visible behind them.

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame of a planted garden with white and yellow flowers, layered greenery, and a small masonry feature at right. — White and yellow flowers stand among dense garden foliage, with masonry visible in the background.

1938 West Virginia 8mm still showing tall flowering plants, yellow blossoms, garden supports, and a bed of long leaves in soft focus. — The garden appears denser in this frame, with long leaves and flowering stems across the foreground.

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame with white flowering plants, yellow blossoms, foreground leaves, and a masonry edge along the right side. — White blooms and long leaves dominate the garden view, with a masonry edge visible on the right.

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