Minnesota-1938: Women and Little Girls Climb Out of a Black Sedan by the Water

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 · Minnesota, United States

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What is in this clip

family outing
car travel
1930s daily life
childhood
women's fashion
lakeside leisure
arrival

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · grassy lakeshore with a parked car and open water to the horizon
Time and weather: day · summer · clear, hazy
Lighting: natural daylight
People: 6 · Several women in print and dark dresses with short 1930s hairstyles, two or three small girls, one wearing a hair bow, and a person in a white shirt inside the car.
Vehicles: black 1930s four-door sedan
Objects: open car doors · spoked chrome hubcaps · car seats · door handles · running board
Colors: magenta · black · pink · purple-grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman in a floral print dress steps out of the rear door as two small girls appear behind her.
The view widens to show both doors open and the lake behind the car.
A woman in a dark dress helps a little girl with a hair bow out of the back seat.
Another woman steps out and walks toward the camera.
Someone in a white shirt leans into the back seat as the woman moves out of frame.

Women and Little Girls Climb Out of a Black Sedan by the... — Clip Details

Probably Minnesota, circa 1938, home movie footage of a black four-door sedan parked on grass beside a wide lake as a family climbs out. A woman in a floral print dress steps from the rear door, then small girls, one with a hair bow, are helped down by a woman in a dark dress. A second woman steps out toward the camera while someone in a white shirt leans inside the car. Filmed handheld in one continuous medium shot on faded, magenta-shifted 8mm colour film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000793

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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

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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: Minnesota, 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: Answers requests for late-1930s colour footage of an American family on a car outing, useful for documentaries on Depression-era leisure and automobile travel.
Period detail: A black rounded 1930s sedan with spoked chrome hubcaps, women's short waved hair and floral print dresses, and small girls in light frocks and a hair bow may show a late-1930s summer.
Home-movie behavior: Unposed, slightly hurried bustle of a family piling out of the car, with an adult reaching back to lift a child down while others step past the camera.
What appears in frame: A black sedan with both side doors open, a woman in a floral dress, a woman in a dark dress helping a little girl, a child with a hair bow, a person in a white shirt in the back seat, and open water behind the car.
Film character: Faded early colour 8mm with a heavy magenta shift, soft focus, fine grain and gleaming chrome highlights, shot handheld with loose reframing that gives a genuine family-camera texture.
Edit role: Works as an arrival beat or cutaway in a road-trip sequence, or as a short memory insert of family life in the late 1930s.
Historical context: Kodachrome reached 8mm movie film in 1936, so colour footage of an ordinary family car outing like this one is a relatively early example of amateur colour filmmaking.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness rights of the identifiable women and children shown; the people are unidentified, and the car shows no readable badge or plate.
Research search match: 1930s family getting out of car, vintage sedan home movie, late 1930s colour 8mm family outing, women and children by a lake 1930s.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's family coming out of the house doorway, the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge and downtown view, and the family looking out over the lake, then with other late-1930s Minnesota footage and other family car outings.

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Woman in a floral dress and two small girls get out of a black 1930s sedan with spoked hubcaps, probably in Minnesota, circa 1938 — A woman in a floral print dress steps down from the rear door while two small girls wait in the doorway behind her.
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Family climbs out of a black 1930s sedan parked on grass by open water, likely a Minnesota lake, circa 1938 — With both doors open, a woman in a print dress steps away from the car as a child is helped out behind her; open water fills the background.
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Mother figure helps a little girl with a hair bow out of a black 1930s sedan by a lake, probably Minnesota, circa 1938 — A woman in a dark dress helps a little girl wearing a hair bow out of the back seat while another woman stands beside the car.
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Woman steps away from a black 1930s sedan while a person in white leans inside, lake behind, probably Minnesota, circa 1938 — A woman in a dark dress steps out toward the camera as someone in a white shirt leans into the back seat of the car.
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