West Virginia-1938: Close Up And Long Range View Of Flower Gardens In Bloom On

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

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Close Up And Long Range View Of Flower Gardens In Bloom On — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1938 captures a sun-drenched garden in West Virginia, featuring close-up views of white and cream-colored blossoms in full bloom. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows dense clusters of flowers against dark green foliage, with natural light creating a soft, nostalgic glow. The camera moves from tight floral details to a wider perspective, revealing a lush garden with varied plantings and a wooden railing in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and personal memory. Ideal for historical documentaries, nature montages, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268201

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 for documentary cutaways, nature inserts, memory sequences, or archival transitions around domestic landscapes and blooming plants.
Period detail: The footage may show a prewar home garden with informal plantings, a wooden railing, and hand-held 8mm color exposure consistent with late-1930s amateur filming.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes flowers from a personal, unstaged viewpoint, moving between close blossoms and a wider garden view rather than presenting a formal botanical survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cream-white blossoms, dark leafy foliage, flower beds, a lawn edge, a wooden railing, garden shrubs, and bright outdoor sunlight.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, dark frame edges, and color fading that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet floral insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a West Virginia home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for ornamental gardening and private outdoor leisure in archival home-movie footage without identifying a specific property or household.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related concerns should still be checked against source records.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden, 1930s home movie flowers, vintage flower beds in bloom, and amateur color garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia material, then broader 1930s home-movie garden or flowering-plant footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing cream-white blossoms clustered against dense dark foliage in bright sun. — Close view of pale blossoms in a sunlit garden bed.

Close 8mm view of pale blossoms and leafy shrubs in a West Virginia garden, with soft focus and dark frame edges. — Pale flowers fill the frame against dense green foliage.

Underexposed 8mm frame with very limited visible garden detail, likely during camera movement or exposure change. — A dark transitional frame with only faint outdoor detail visible.

Wider 1938 West Virginia garden view showing flower beds, shrubs, lawn, and a wooden railing in sunlit 8mm footage. — A wider look across a planted garden with railing in the foreground.

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