California-1939: People Getting Out Of A Car And Walking In A Field

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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People Getting Out Of A Car And Walking In A Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment in a vast California field. Two figures walk across the open landscape, one carrying a bag, while a classic car appears in later frames, with a person exiting. The grainy black-and-white footage shows signs of age with film scratches and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style glimpse of everyday life in 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127570703

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 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: Supports documentary or education requests for late-1930s California home-movie views of people moving through an open rural field with a parked car nearby.
Period detail: The rounded sedan profile and simple open landscape may show late-1930s travel or field activity, consistent with the supplied 1939 California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, with people walking across the field and one person near the car rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two distant walkers, an open field, a rounded car, low horizon, scattered field structures, pale sky, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan shows soft focus, visible grain, exposure haze, dust marks, and slight frame instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief rural travel insert, quiet transition, period cutaway, or memory beat within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of everyday outdoor movement in a broad California landscape without enough detail to identify the exact site or activity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no logos or private property are clearly identifiable in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 California 8mm home movie, people walking in field, vintage car in rural landscape, and 1930s outdoor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with California 1939 rural scenes, and then with broader 1930s travel or field-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two distant figures cross an open California field in 1939 home-movie footage, with soft focus and dark 8mm frame borders. — Two people walk through an open field in a distant, softly focused view.

A rounded late-1930s style car appears in an open California field, with one person beside it in soft black-and-white footage. — A person stands near a rounded car in the open field.

A wide California field view shows scattered small structures or equipment in grainy 1939 8mm footage. — Small field structures or equipment appear across the broad landscape.

A distant figure stands among scattered field structures in an open California landscape, seen in soft 1939 home-movie footage. — A distant person appears near small structures in the open field.

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