United States-1938: Family Walks Out of an Ivy-Covered Shingled House Toward the Camera

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 · United States

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What is in this clip

family life
1930s fashion
multigenerational family
home and domestic life
childhood
summer leisure
pre-war America

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Front lawn beside an ivy-covered, shingle-sided house with shrubs and a white-trimmed window
Time and weather: day · summer · sunny
Lighting: Bright natural sunlight with deep shade near the ivy wall
People: 4 · A grey-haired older woman in a buttoned blouse and belted skirt, a younger woman in a light short-sleeved dress, a small child, and a balding man in a dark double-breasted suit with white shirt and tie
Objects: ivy-covered wall · shingle siding · white-trimmed window · downspout · shrubs · lawn
Colors: mint green · magenta · dark purple · pale cyan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman in a light dress and a man in a dark suit step out beside the ivy-covered wall.
A grey-haired woman and a small child come into view as the group walks across the lawn.
The four reach a medium framing in front of the shingled wall and white-trimmed window.
The group keeps walking toward the camera as the shot ends.

Family Walks Out of an Ivy-Covered Shingled House Toward... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1938 home movie footage shows a family group coming out beside an ivy-covered, shingled house on a sunny day. A grey-haired woman, a younger woman in a light short-sleeved dress, a small child holding hands and a balding man in a dark double-breasted suit cross the lawn toward the camera past low shrubs. The single handheld shot goes from a medium-wide view to a closer medium framing as they approach. It is on faded early colour film with strong green and magenta shifts.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000784

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
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: 1938 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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip answers requests for late-1930s American family footage in colour, useful for documentaries, museum displays and nostalgic commercial openings.
Period detail: The calf-length short-sleeved dresses, belted skirt and dark double-breasted suit with tie point to the late 1930s, and the faded colour stock may show an early amateur colour reversal film.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged family walks casually toward a relative's camera, the child holding hands between two adults and the older woman glancing ahead, the kind of everyday moment home movies kept.
What appears in frame: The shot holds two women in light clothes, a small child holding hands, a man in a dark double-breasted suit, an ivy-covered wall, shingle siding, a white-trimmed window and low shrubs on a sunny lawn.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and a strong fade to mint-green and magenta give the shot the texture of aged early colour home-movie film, captured with a gentle handheld drift.
Edit role: Use it as a memory beat or character introduction, a family establishing shot, or a short period cutaway between interviews.
Historical context: Colour home movies were still new in the late 1930s after Kodak's 16mm and 8mm Kodachrome releases of 1935 and 1936, and this group's formal summer dress shows how a family presented itself on camera.
Research note: The people are unidentified and include a minor; their faces are recognisable enough that likeness use needs care, the private house is visible, and copyright in the film is a separate question from likeness and property.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1930s family walking toward camera, late-1930s colour home movie, pre-war American family footage, or vintage family in period dress.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with the same reel's clip of the family arriving by a 1930s sedan, then with other late-1930s US family home movies, then with vintage footage of families walking together.

Still Frames From This Clip

Family group stepping out beside an ivy-covered shingled house, likely in the United States, circa 1938, on faded colour film — The group emerges beside the ivy wall at the start of the shot, circa 1938.
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Two women, a small child and a suited man cross a sunny lawn by a shingled house in the United States, circa 1938 — Two women, a small child and a man in a double-breasted suit walk across the lawn, circa 1938.
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Medium view of a family in late-1930s dress before a shingled wall and white-trimmed window, United States, circa 1938 — A medium view of the family in period dress as they near the camera.
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Family of four in 1930s clothing walks toward the camera by a shingled house, likely in the United States, circa 1938 — The family walks close to the camera, the man holding the child's hand, circa 1938.
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