California-1938: Mountain Landscape With Trees And Misty Valleys

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 California

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Mountain Landscape With Trees And Misty Valleys — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape in California. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows tall evergreen trees silhouetted against misty peaks and rolling hills. Clouds drift through the valleys, creating a dreamy, atmospheric scene. The grainy black-and-white image, with visible film scratches and dust, evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or any content requiring authentic 1930s Americana scenery.

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: 127417579

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing an atmospheric mountain landscape cutaway for documentary, museum, educational, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The view may show a 1938 visitor-shot mountain scene, with no visible modern structures, vehicles, signage, or people to narrow the period beyond the supplied film metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The framing through a window or lodge opening gives the scene the value of an unstaged traveler’s pause, recording weather, trees, and valley mist rather than a formal scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window dividers, tall evergreen trees, layered mountain ridges, low clouds or fog in valleys, pale sky, and soft foreground branches.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm image carries fine grain, light dust, scratches, soft exposure, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic insert, transition, establishing cutaway, or memory beat between travel, wilderness, or Depression-era home-movie material.
Historical context: The clip provides a visual record of leisure observation in a mountainous California setting, emphasizing landscape and weather without showing buildings, roads, or social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 California mountain home movie, black-and-white 8mm misty valley, vintage evergreen landscape, and 1930s scenic travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other California 1938 travel footage, and finally with mountain, evergreen, fog, or vintage landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing tall evergreens, layered mountain ridges, and valley mist viewed through a dark window frame. — Evergreens and misty mountain slopes framed by a dark window opening.

A black-and-white 1938 California mountain view with evergreen silhouettes, low clouds, and distant ridgelines behind a window frame. — Evergreen silhouettes rise against clouds drifting over distant mountains.

1938 California home-movie frame of a mist-filled mountain valley, with a central evergreen and dark vertical window dividers. — A central evergreen divides a misty valley and layered mountain view.

Black-and-white 1938 California landscape with distant ridges, valley fog, an evergreen at right, and bare branches near the top edge. — Distant ridges and valley fog appear behind an evergreen and bare branches.

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