West Virginia-1938: White Flowers Blooming in Garden

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

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White Flowers Blooming in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of two bushes adorned with delicate white flowers, their petals softly illuminated against dark, shadowy foliage. The camera pans slowly across the blooms, revealing their full, rounded forms and the lush green leaves surrounding them. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, intimate feel, evoking a quiet moment in a private garden. The dark background and subtle lighting create a moody, timeless atmosphere, characteristic of mid-20th century home footage. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into domestic life and nature in West Virginia during the 1930s, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visuals.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268279

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: Useful for requests needing 1930s West Virginia home-movie garden footage as a quiet nature insert or period domestic cutaway.
Period detail: The masonry wall, dense shrub planting, and informal flower-bed framing may show a private or domestic garden setting from the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan across blooming shrubs preserves an unstaged home-movie look at flowers rather than a formal botanical study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rounded white and pale pink blooms, dark leafy bushes, small buds, a low masonry wall, shadowed background, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, dark shadow areas, and slight handheld movement consistent with home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a floral cutaway, gentle transition, seasonal memory beat, or visual pause within domestic archive material.
Historical context: The clip gives a modest view of planted flowers in West Virginia in 1938 without identifying the household, garden, or exact town.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden flowers, vintage home movie flower bushes, white blooms, and domestic garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other West Virginia 1938 clips, then 1930s home-movie garden, flowers, and domestic exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing pale rounded flowers, buds, and dark foliage in a shadowed garden close-up. — Pale blooms and dark leaves fill the opening garden close-up.

A close 8mm view of pale garden flowers and buds among dark leaves, consistent with the supplied 1938 West Virginia metadata. — The pan continues across clustered blooms and buds in dense foliage.

Wider 1938 West Virginia garden frame with pale and pinkish flower clusters on bushes below a dark masonry wall. — Flowering bushes appear in a wider view beneath a masonry wall.

Final 8mm frame showing pale and pinkish garden flowers across low bushes with a dark masonry wall behind them. — The final frame shows the flower bed spread across the lower edge of the wall.

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