West Virginia-1938: The Rocky Mountain Pass

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWest Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 West Virginia

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The Rocky Mountain Pass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain pass in West Virginia. The sequence opens with close-up, grainy views of jagged rocks and uneven terrain, then transitions to a wider shot of a winding road cutting through dense forest. A car approaches a dark tunnel entrance, emphasizing the era's early automotive travel. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a narrow black border. This archival clip evokes a sense of adventure and historical Americana, perfect for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268542

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 West Virginia mountain-road footage for documentary inserts about early auto travel, Appalachian terrain, or rural road journeys.
Period detail: The narrow paved road, tunnel portal, and soft black-and-white 8mm look may show a late-1930s traveler’s view through a rocky mountain pass.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on rough rock faces before looking down the road toward a tunnel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include jagged rocks, shadowed terrain, wooded hillsides, a curving paved road, a tunnel entrance, and a small approaching car.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate borders, and slight handheld instability consistent with original small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a road-trip cutaway, geographic transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for mountain travel in the 1930s.
Historical context: The road and tunnel suggest motor travel through a forested Appalachian landscape, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific route or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any route or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s West Virginia 8mm mountain road, vintage tunnel approach, rocky pass home movie, and Appalachian travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia footage, then broader vintage mountain roads, tunnels, and auto-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a close, grainy view of jagged rock surfaces in a mountain pass. — Jagged rock surfaces fill the frame in the opening view of the mountain pass.

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame with rough rock formations and shadowed mountain terrain. — A second close view emphasizes the rough stone along the pass.

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a road curving toward a tunnel beneath forested slopes. — The view widens to a road curving toward a tunnel entrance in the hills.

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame with a small car near a tunnel on a winding mountain road. — A small car approaches the tunnel along the winding mountain road.

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