West Virginia-1938: Trees Swaying in Wind on Forested Hillside

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

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Trees Swaying in Wind on Forested Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene hillside landscape in West Virginia. The black-and-white footage shows dense clusters of trees and shrubs swaying gently in the wind across a forested slope. Rolling hills and distant mountain ridges fade into the misty background, creating a layered, atmospheric view. The natural grain and soft focus of the Super 8 film add to the nostalgic, archival quality of this classic Americana footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268475

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 Appalachian landscape requests needing a quiet West Virginia mountain cutaway, nature insert, or atmospheric home-movie transition.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm footage may show a late-1930s amateur view of wooded West Virginia hillsides, with no buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage visible for finer dating.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or family member pausing on a hillside view, recording wind moving through shrubs and trees rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded slopes, dense shrubs, taller trees, rolling ridgelines, a misty valley, soft sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, and rounded dark frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, reflective transition, regional establishing beat, or natural pause between people-centered home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view offers rural Appalachian landscape context from the 1930s without visible settlement, industry, roads, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, interiors, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright and location-specific property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 West Virginia 8mm landscape, Appalachian hills home movie, black-and-white mountain valley footage, or wind in trees archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1938 West Virginia material, and then with broader Appalachian landscape or rural nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing shrubs and trees on a hillside with layered mountain ridges beyond. — Shrubs and trees cover a sloped West Virginia hillside, with distant ridges fading in haze.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a West Virginia hillside, with windblown shrubs and soft mountain ridges behind it. — A forested slope fills the foreground while hazy mountain layers recede into the background.

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame with hillside brush, scattered trees, and rolling ridges in soft focus. — Hillside brush and scattered trees lead toward layered ridgelines in the distance.

Black-and-white West Virginia 8mm frame showing hillside shrubs, trees, and a distant hazy mountain valley. — Windblown hillside vegetation overlooks a valley and soft mountain ridges beyond.

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