Washington USA-1938: Skier Being Towed Behind Boat Across Lake

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Washington

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Skier Being Towed Behind Boat Across Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1938, captured on grainy black and white film. The clip shows a small boat moving across a calm lake, with a distant mountainous shoreline visible. A skier glides across the water's surface, creating a wake, as the camera follows the boat's movement. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: film grain, vertical scratches, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The scene captures a quiet moment of recreation on a lake, with natural light and a serene atmosphere.

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: 121486700

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 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: Washington, 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: Useful for documentary or museum edits needing 1930s Washington home-movie footage of lake recreation, boating, and early water-ski activity in a mountain setting.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s recreational boating on a broad lake, with small craft, low wooded shoreline, and mountains visible through soft 8mm black-and-white exposure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a moving boat or shoreline vantage as small watercraft and a skier pass at distance, giving the scene an unstaged vacation-record quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, distant low boats, a water skier or wake, wooded shoreline, rounded mountains, cloudy sky, and dark contact-sheet frame bars.
Film character: The 8mm scan has pronounced grain, soft focus, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for outdoor leisure, Northwest travel, lake recreation, or prewar American home movies.
Historical context: The clip documents leisure activity on a mountainous lake in Washington, suggesting recreational access to boating and water sports without identifying a specific lake or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are discernible in the frames, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s Washington lake boating, vintage 8mm water skiing, black-and-white home movie lake recreation, and mountain shoreline footage fit this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington lake footage, then broader 1930s boating, skiing, and mountain recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small craft and possible water skier on a calm lake with a broad mountain slope behind them. — A small boat and skier move across the lake in front of a distant hillside.

Distant 1938 Washington lake view with a small moving craft or skier leaving a wake against a soft mountainous shoreline. — A distant figure or craft leaves a wake across the lake surface.

Wide black-and-white 8mm view of a Washington lake, with a small skier or boat in the foreground and layered mountains beyond the shore. — The camera widens to show the lake, shoreline, and mountains behind the moving subject.

Soft 1938 Washington lake frame showing trees along the shore, mountains in the distance, and a small boat or skier near the waterline. — Trees and distant mountains frame a small boat or skier on the lake.

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