Washington USA-1938: Speedboat Crossing Lake with Mesa Landscape

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

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Speedboat Crossing Lake with Mesa Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in Washington USA, showing a speedboat cutting across a lake or large river. The black-and-white film captures the boat leaving a distinct wake as it moves past rugged mesas and arid canyon walls. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film jitter, viewed through a dark frame border. The scene evokes mid-20th century outdoor recreation and American landscape nostalgia.

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: 121486722

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 1930s documentary or educational edits needing 8mm home-movie views of boating on a broad Washington waterway with arid bluffs in the background.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s recreational boating, with period evidence coming mainly from the 8mm black-and-white stock, handheld framing, and metadata date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a traveler filming from shore or a moving viewpoint, lingering on the speedboat and surrounding canyon-like landscape rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a speedboat, broad water surface, foamy wake, low shoreline, rugged mesa-like bluffs, dark frame borders, and scratched black-and-white film texture.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm monochrome grain, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight jitter that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, landscape transition, recreation insert, or memory beat within a sequence about travel, boating, rivers, or western scenery.
Historical context: The scene reflects outdoor leisure filmed from a personal perspective, with a small motorboat moving through a large open water landscape bordered by dry bluffs.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1930s 8mm speedboat footage, Washington river boating, vintage home movie lake wake, and mesa landscape waterway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Washington 1938 material, and then broader themes of vintage boating, river travel, and arid landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a broad waterway below rugged bluffs, with dark gate edges and visible film wear. — A wide view across water toward dry, mesa-like bluffs in the distance.

A small speedboat crosses the water near the shoreline below rugged Washington bluffs in grainy 1938 home-movie footage. — A speedboat moves along the far shore beneath rugged bluffs.

The speedboat leaves a pale wake across the water, with mesa-like bluffs softened by motion and 8mm film texture. — Foamy wake trails across the water as the boat passes through the frame.

A wide 1938 Washington home-movie view shows wake on the water in front of dry, mesa-like bluffs and a dark film border. — Wake cuts across the foreground water with dry bluffs rising beyond the shoreline.

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