West Virginia-1938: Car Emerges from Tree-Covered Tunnel

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

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Car Emerges from Tree-Covered Tunnel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a classic American road trip moment. A car emerges from a tree-covered tunnel on a clear day, its headlights cutting through the shadowed entrance as it travels along a winding mountain road. The footage, framed by the film's characteristic borders, shows dense forested hillsides and a quiet, rural atmosphere. The grainy black-and-white image evokes nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century travel in West Virginia.

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: 127268544

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 American travel edits needing a brief West Virginia mountain-road tunnel shot from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The narrow paved road, simple tunnel opening, guardrail and small car may show late-1930s rural highway travel details.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records a passing car from a roadside or moving-travel viewpoint, giving the moment an unstaged home-movie road-trip quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a forested hillside, tunnel portal, curving road, guardrail, small automobile, bright daylight and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Soft black-and-white 8mm texture, visible grain, gate edges, flicker and slight blur reinforce the scanned physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition or memory beat for mountain driving, road travel or prewar home-movie journeys.
Historical context: The clip visually places automobile travel within a wooded Appalachian landscape without identifying the exact tunnel or roadway.
Research note: People may be present inside the car but faces are not readable; no visible logos, music or private interiors appear, though copyright and likeness review still applies.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 West Virginia 8mm road trip footage, vintage car exiting tunnel, and 1930s mountain highway home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with West Virginia 1938 travel footage, then with broader vintage tunnel or mountain-road scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a small car emerging from a tree-lined tunnel onto a curving mountain road. — A car appears near the shaded tunnel mouth on a wooded mountain road.

A small car moves along a curving West Virginia road after leaving a tree-covered tunnel in 1938 home-movie footage. — The car advances along the curve with dense trees rising behind the tunnel.

Soft 8mm frame from 1938 West Virginia showing the car farther from the tunnel on a sunlit mountain road. — Motion blur and grain mark the car's movement beyond the tunnel entrance.

The car continues away from the tunnel on a curving West Virginia mountain road, framed by 8mm film borders. — The vehicle moves along the bend as the wooded hillside fills the background.

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