West Virginia-1938: A House Backyard Full of Flowers

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

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A House Backyard Full of Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard garden in West Virginia. The camera pans slowly across a vibrant flower bed bursting with red, yellow, and white tulips against a brick wall. Lush green foliage fills the foreground, with natural light creating soft shadows and highlighting the film's characteristic grain and warm color palette. This authentic slice of mid-century domestic life evokes nostalgia and offers authentic archival footage for historical 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: 127268379

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: West Virginia, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1930s West Virginia home-movie garden footage for domestic-life, seasonal, nature, or memory-based documentary sequences.
Period detail: The frame may show period domestic landscaping through a brick wall, dense flower bed, and informal backyard filming style rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flower bed as a quiet household detail, preserving an unstaged home-movie view of a backyard garden in bloom.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red and yellow tulips, white blossoms, green leaves, tall stems, a brick wall, sunlit garden soil, and soft backyard shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm color, visible grain, slight softness, and handheld framing that give the garden scene authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, seasonal insert, domestic memory beat, or gentle transition within a family or regional history sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for a cultivated residential garden in late-1930s West Virginia without identifying the household or property owner.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright, property context, and any release needs should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 West Virginia home movie garden, 8mm backyard flowers, vintage tulips, and 1930s domestic nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with West Virginia 1938 home-movie material, then with gardens, flowers, houses, or domestic outdoor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame showing a sunlit backyard flower bed with red blossoms, leafy plants, and a brick wall. — A backyard garden bed fills the frame, with red flowers and dense foliage near a brick wall.

1938 West Virginia backyard garden view with red and yellow flowers, dense leaves, and a brick wall behind the bed. — The camera looks across a dense flower bed with blossoms rising in front of brickwork.

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame showing a fuller section of the backyard tulip bed with mixed blossoms and foliage. — A fuller stretch of the flower bed shows red, yellow, and pale blossoms in warm light.

1938 West Virginia backyard garden frame with clustered tulips, pale blossoms, leafy stems, and a brick wall behind them. — Clustered flowers and leafy stems fill the lower frame, backed by a brick wall.

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