West Virginia-1938: Car Drives Into Tunnel Under Mountain Covered With Trees

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

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Car Drives Into Tunnel Under Mountain Covered With Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures classic automobiles driving along a winding mountain road in West Virginia. The black-and-white footage shows two vintage cars navigating a sharp curve before entering a dark tunnel carved through the rocky hillside. Lush trees and rugged rock formations line the road, with a low stone wall visible along the edge. The grainy, slightly blurred quality of the Super 8 footage evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and historical Americana, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 127268528

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s West Virginia home-movie road footage for documentary inserts about early automobile travel, mountain roads, tunnels, or regional travel memory.
Period detail: The rounded automobile bodies, narrow paved road, low roadside wall, and dark tunnel opening may show late-1930s mountain highway travel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger or roadside home-movie viewpoint, watching cars approach a curve and disappear into a tunnel without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two dark cars, a winding road, a tunnel mouth, a low stone or concrete guard wall, rocky hillside, dense trees, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-transition shot, regional cutaway, or memory beat before a tunnel or mountain sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for automobile touring through wooded Appalachian terrain, while the exact road and tunnel are not identified in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 West Virginia home movie, 8mm mountain road tunnel, vintage cars on winding road, and 1930s Appalachian travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1938 West Virginia travel footage, and then with vintage automobile, tunnel, or mountain-road material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia home-movie frame of cars on a winding mountain road approaching a dark tunnel beneath a wooded hillside. — Cars round a tree-lined mountain curve toward a tunnel entrance.

Vintage cars travel on a curved West Virginia mountain road near a dark tunnel opening, with trees and rock above the road. — The cars move closer to the tunnel along the roadside wall.

A home-movie frame shows one vintage car near the tunnel mouth and another following on the wooded mountain curve in West Virginia. — One car reaches the tunnel approach as another follows behind.

Late clip frame with a car near the edge of the view, a dark tunnel opening, dense trees, and rocky mountain terrain in West Virginia. — The car passes near the tunnel as the wooded hillside fills the frame.

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