West Virginia-1938: Colorful Shrubs Bloom in Garden

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

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Colorful Shrubs Bloom in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sun-dappled garden scene in West Virginia. The footage features a dense cluster of reddish-brown shrubs in full bloom, their vibrant color contrasting with surrounding green foliage. The camera moves slowly across the garden, revealing the natural texture of the plants and the soft, diffused lighting of a quiet outdoor setting. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, mid-20th century atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for historical, documentary, 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: 127268332

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 1930s home-movie requests needing a quiet garden or yard cutaway from West Virginia for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The frames may show a domestic yard planting with flowering shrubs, soft garden paths, and the color response typical of amateur 8mm film from the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a family camera lingering on seasonal landscaping rather than staged botanical or commercial footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include reddish flowering shrubs, darker foreground leaves, green lawn, a pale garden path, background trees, dappled sunlight, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, rounded frame edges, slight softness, color fading, and exposure shifts in bright outdoor light.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a garden insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or quiet establishing cutaway within a home, landscape, or regional history sequence.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it documents attention to domestic outdoor space and ornamental planting without showing people, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden footage, vintage home movie flowering shrubs, 1930s yard foliage, and archival outdoor cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then West Virginia or 1938 home-movie material, and then broader garden, yard, foliage, or seasonal nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing reddish flowering shrubs, dark foreground foliage, and background trees in a sun-dappled yard. — Reddish shrubs fill the garden frame with trees and darker leaves behind them.

Reddish-brown flowering shrubs dominate a West Virginia yard view, with darker foliage and trees softened by 8mm film texture. — The camera holds on dense reddish shrubs bordered by dark garden foliage.

A handheld 8mm view moves across reddish shrubs and dark leafy plants in a 1938 West Virginia garden setting. — A lower pass across the shrubs emphasizes their color and dense texture.

West Virginia yard frame with a pale garden path, green lawn, dark shrub, and reddish flowering bushes captured on 8mm film. — A pale path and lawn appear beyond the reddish shrubs near the end of the shot.

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