California-1936: Two Guys With Rifles Hunting In The Hills

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Year1936
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1936 California

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Two Guys With Rifles Hunting In The Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1936, this vintage home movie captures a rugged California landscape with rolling hills and a small lake. Two men in period attire, one wearing a wide-brimmed hat, stand behind a stone wall holding rifles, appearing to hunt or survey the terrain. The footage shows natural, unsteady camera movement typical of amateur Super 8 recordings, with visible film grain and scratches. The muted earth tones and overcast sky evoke a nostalgic, historical atmosphere of early 20th-century outdoor life.

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: 127478154

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: 1936 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: California, 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

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California home-movie hunting footage for documentary inserts about outdoor recreation, rural travel, or amateur filming in rugged hill country.
Period detail: The men's brimmed hat, plain workwear, rifles, stone wall, and muted 8mm color may show a 1930s outdoor hunting or survey outing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an informal home-movie perspective, with people pausing near a wall and looking across the landscape rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry hills, a small lake or reservoir, stonework, rifles, two adult men, overcast sky, scrubby terrain, and film edge shadows.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate shadows, vertical scratches, and slightly unsteady handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, rural travel insert, hunting-context transition, or memory beat within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents amateur outdoor leisure in a dry California landscape, with firearms present but no visible shooting or animal contact in these frames.
Research note: People are visible, including possible faces at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, music, or clear private property are visible in the stills.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California 8mm hunting footage, vintage men with rifles in hills, home movie lake landscape, and rural outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with California 1936 outdoor material, then with broader hunting, hills, lake, and rural travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing rolling dry hills and a small lake or reservoir with dark gate shadows at the sides. — A distant lake or reservoir sits below dry rolling hills.

1936 California 8mm frame showing a rocky hill, dry earth, and a narrow strip of water or shoreline under a pale sky. — Rocky hill country and a thin waterline fill the frame.

1936 California 8mm frame showing two adult men near a stone wall, with one man in a hat holding a rifle and another partly visible on the wall. — Two men pause by a stone wall during an outdoor rifle outing.

1936 California 8mm frame showing an adult man holding a rifle while standing near rocks and dry low hills. — A man holding a rifle stands against a dry hillside landscape.

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