Winchester Maryland-1938: Autumn Trees Blowing in Strong Wind on Hillside

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWinchester, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Winchester Maryland

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Autumn Trees Blowing in Strong Wind on Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene hillside landscape in Winchester, Maryland. The black-and-white footage shows dense trees swaying vigorously in a strong wind, their branches and leaves blurred by motion. The scene unfolds from a high vantage point, with rolling hills stretching into the distance under a bright, overcast sky. The grainy texture and soft focus of the Super 8 footage evoke a nostalgic, timeless quality, offering a rare glimpse of rural life and natural beauty from the late 1930s.

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: 127268643

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: Winchester, Maryland, 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 rural Mid-Atlantic nature requests needing a brief atmospheric landscape insert or seasonal cutaway.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look and metadata-supported 1938 date place the view in a late-1930s home-movie context, with no visible modern structures or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a high vantage point, recording wind moving through trees as an unstaged home-movie observation of the landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hillside trees, bright leaves, dark trunks, sloped ground, distant ridges, soft sky, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame divisions give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or establishing fragment between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a rural hillside landscape around Winchester, Maryland, without identifiable people, buildings, vehicles, or landmarks in view.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any broader property or location rights should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1938 8mm Maryland landscape, Winchester hillside trees, windy autumn trees, or rural home-movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Winchester or Maryland 1938 material, then broader 1930s rural landscape and autumn wind footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm home-movie frame from Winchester, Maryland, looking over a hillside with trees and distant ridges. — A high hillside view shows trees against distant rolling terrain.

Black-and-white 8mm frame shows a leafy tree on a hillside in the Winchester, Maryland landscape. — A wind-stirred tree stands on a grassy slope.

A 1938 home-movie frame shows blurred foliage and tree trunks on a sloped Maryland hillside. — Leaves blur across the frame as wind moves through the trees.

Black-and-white 8mm frame captures windblown tree branches on a hillside near Winchester, Maryland. — A close hillside view emphasizes moving leaves and dark tree trunks.

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