West Virginia-1938: Tulips and Daffodils Along Garden Path

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

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Tulips and Daffodils Along Garden Path — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil spring garden in West Virginia. The footage shows a stone pathway winding through a lush flowerbed filled with blooming tulips and daffodils, their colors appearing in soft reds, pinks, and yellows against green foliage. The scene is bathed in diffused light, suggesting a cloudy day, with a brick wall visible in the background. The final frames shift to a striking purple-tinted view, likely due to film aging or lighting conditions, highlighting the daffodils in an ethereal glow. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century domestic life and garden aesthetics.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268392

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 8mm home-movie garden footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions needing a quiet spring domestic exterior.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s domestic garden planting, with stone path slabs, brick edging, tulips, daffodils, and informal flowerbeds visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the garden from a close household viewpoint, lingering on flowers and path details rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include stone path slabs, brick wall or border, tulips, daffodils, dense green foliage, lawn edges, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame-edge shadowing, and a purple color shift in later frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a spring cutaway, domestic memory beat, seasonal transition, or visual pause within a home-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for planted residential garden space in West Virginia home-movie footage from 1938, without showing people or public activity.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 West Virginia 8mm garden footage, spring bulbs home movie, daffodils and tulips path, and vintage domestic garden.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1938 West Virginia exteriors, and then with spring gardens, flowers, or domestic landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie view of a stone garden path bordered by tulips, low foliage, and brickwork. — Stone path and spring flowers along a garden border.

Home-movie frame of a West Virginia garden path with blooming tulips, foliage, and a brick or stone border in soft 8mm color. — Blooming tulips and foliage beside a stepping-stone garden path.

Purple-shifted 8mm frame showing daffodils and tall leaves along a garden border in the 1938 West Virginia clip. — Daffodils and tall leaves appear in a purple-tinted section of the film.

Late frame of the 1938 West Virginia garden clip, with daffodils, tall foliage, and a strong purple film color shift. — Daffodils and garden foliage under a pronounced purple color shift.

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