California-1939: Men Walking Through Bushes With One Smoking

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

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Men Walking Through Bushes With One Smoking — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from California in 1939 captures a group of men walking through dense bushes and wooded terrain. One man in a light-colored shirt smokes while others, including one in a fedora and another in a hat, move through the natural landscape. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a casual outdoor gathering, with the men conversing and navigating the brush. The handheld camera follows their movement, offering a candid glimpse of mid-century American life in nature.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127571144

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California home-movie footage for productions needing a brief outdoor cutaway of adult men moving through brush and informal wooded terrain.
Period detail: The men's hats, light shirts, and black-and-white 8mm home-movie texture may show late-1930s casual outdoor dress and filming habits in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment as several men walk, pause, and converse while one man smokes among dense bushes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult men in hats, a smoking man in a light shirt, dense shrubs, bare tree branches, a narrow path, and glimpses of a nearby building roofline.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, heavy grain, edge vignetting, and handheld framing that give it a tactile 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transitional outdoor memory beat, or cutaway for men exploring rural or garden-like brush in the late 1930s.
Historical context: The scene offers social context for adult male leisure or outdoor gathering without identifying the men, property, or purpose of the outing.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and identity review may be needed, while the provided metadata indicates no visible logos, audible music, children, or clearly identifiable private property.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 California 8mm home movie men walking through bushes, smoking man outdoors, and black-and-white home-movie wooded path footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with California 1939 home movies, and then with broader outdoor walking, men gathering, smoking, and brushland cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1939 California 8mm frame, adult men are partly hidden by dense bushes and trees as they move along an outdoor path. — Men move through dense brush.

Adult men stand close together near dense brush in California home-movie footage, including a man in a light shirt holding a cigarette near his mouth. — A smoking man stands with others by the brush.

A narrow outdoor path curves through thick bushes, with adult men partly visible at the left edge and a building roofline faintly seen beyond the vegetation. — The camera follows the path through shrubs.

An adult man in dark trousers walks away along a narrow path beside dense bushes in 1939 California 8mm home-movie footage. — A man walks away along the brush-lined path.

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