West Virginia-1938: View Of Trees And Hills On A Sunny Windy Day

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

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View Of Trees And Hills On A Sunny Windy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of rolling hills and dense tree cover in West Virginia. The black-and-white footage shows a sunlit, windy day with a textured, grainy quality typical of Super 8 home movies. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing layered ridges and scattered foliage, evoking a sense of quiet rural life and natural beauty from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268479

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 editorial or documentary sequences needing rural West Virginia landscape, wooded hills, or non-urban establishing material from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm landscape footage, with no visible buildings, vehicles, signage, clothing, or landmarks to further date the scene beyond the supplied 1938 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, panning across a scenic overlook or hillside view as a traveler records trees and ridgelines in passing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy foreground trees, rolling wooded hills, layered distant ridges, bright sky haze, open slopes, and the contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, gentle exposure shifts, gate edges, and handheld movement that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing shot, landscape insert, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat in a 1930s regional sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests rural Appalachian terrain and wooded open country, but the frames do not support claims about specific communities, land use, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though users should still review copyright status and any location-specific permissions separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 West Virginia 8mm landscape, 1930s rural hills, vintage wooded ridges, Appalachian scenery, and windy sunny home-movie footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia material, then broader 1930s rural landscape or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing foreground trees and layered rural hills in soft black-and-white. — Foreground trees frame a hazy view of wooded hills.

Black-and-white 8mm view of trees against rolling West Virginia hills, with soft grain and bright haze. — Trees stand against layered hills in the distance.

1938 home-movie frame of a rural West Virginia hillside view, with foliage at the lower edge and ridges beyond. — The camera pan opens onto slopes and distant ridgelines.

Soft black-and-white 8mm frame showing rolling West Virginia hills and foreground branches during a landscape pan. — Rolling hills and foreground branches fill the final view.

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