West Virginia-1938: Cars Driving on Mountain Road Toward Tunnel

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

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Cars Driving on Mountain Road Toward Tunnel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a winding mountain road in West Virginia. Two classic automobiles navigate the curving asphalt, one approaching a dark tunnel carved into the hillside while another travels in the opposite direction. The scene is framed by dense trees and rocky embankments, with natural light creating strong contrasts. The grainy black-and-white footage, complete with film borders, evokes a nostalgic mid-20th century Americana feel, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127268523

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 U.S. road travel, mountain driving, and regional transportation inserts in documentaries, museum media, or historical education edits.
Period detail: The clip shows period automobiles on a paved, curving mountain road, with the 1938 West Virginia setting supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes passing cars from a roadside vantage, giving the scene the casual, unstaged feel of a traveler recording a scenic drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two automobiles, a winding paved road, a dark tunnel entrance, roadside guard edging, dense trees, rocky hillside, and film frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast daylight, and contact-frame borders that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel cutaway, regional transition, road-trip insert, or quiet memory beat between broader 1930s transportation scenes.
Historical context: The footage places early automobile travel within a wooded mountain roadway, suggesting the experience of regional touring before modern highway scale.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any roadway or tunnel identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 West Virginia 8mm road footage, 1930s mountain driving, vintage automobiles on winding road, and home-movie tunnel approach.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then other 1938 West Virginia footage, then broader 1930s road, automobile, or mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame showing automobiles on a winding mountain road approaching and passing a tunnel area. — Cars travel along a wooded mountain road near a tunnel entrance.

Two period cars appear on opposite sides of a winding West Virginia mountain road bordered by trees and a tunnel opening. — Period automobiles pass through a wooded curve in the road.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of cars on a curving West Virginia mountain road, with a dark tunnel mouth in the trees. — Cars follow the curve toward a shaded tunnel area.

A roadside 8mm view shows two automobiles on a wooded mountain curve in West Virginia, with a tunnel entrance ahead. — Automobiles share a winding mountain road bordered by trees.

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