California-1938: People And Their Horses Standing In The Woods On A Sunny Day

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

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People And Their Horses Standing In The Woods On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from California in 1938 captures a rustic outdoor scene in the woods. A person in a red plaid shirt and orange hat stands with a white bucket, while another figure in dark clothing is partially visible. Two horses, one saddled, stand on a rocky, sun-dappled hillside surrounded by evergreen trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic, rural atmosphere. The final frames show a yellow-tinted, blurry image, possibly a film artifact or transition.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127417836

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 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 rural outdoor life, horses, and informal people in wooded terrain for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, rustic hillside setting, bucket, and saddled horse may show late-1930s leisure or ranch-adjacent activity in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as people stand with horses in a wooded area while the camera catches casual movement and uneven framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red plaid shirt, orange hat, white bucket, saddled horses, rocky hillside, evergreen trees, brush, and yellow film flare.
Film character: The footage shows strong 8mm texture with grain, soft focus, handheld framing, exposure shifts, and warm yellow flare across the final frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-memory insert, horseback cutaway, transition into outdoor recreation, or brief 1930s California atmosphere beat.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests informal rural or woodland activity with horses, but it does not identify a specific event, property, or community.
Research note: People and faces may be visible, so likeness review is advised; no logos or private-property details are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 California 8mm home movie horses in woods, rural people with horses, vintage horseback footage, and wooded hillside scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1938 rural footage, then broader 1930s horse, woods, and outdoor-family material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California home-movie frame showing a person in a red plaid shirt and orange hat holding a bucket in a wooded clearing. — A person stands with a bucket among trees and low brush.

Two horses, one apparently saddled, stand on a rocky wooded slope in archival 1938 California home-movie footage. — Horses pause on a rocky hillside below trees and brush.

A yellow film flare washes over a blurred wooded hillside scene with horses faintly visible in the frame. — Film flare partially covers the hillside and horses.

A person in an orange hat stands beside or near a horse in a wooded California scene partly obscured by yellow film flare. — A figure in an orange hat stands near a horse under heavy yellow flare.

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