Washington USA-1938: Motorboat Speeding Across Water Near Mountain

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

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Motorboat Speeding Across Water Near Mountain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1938, captured through a window frame. The grainy black-and-white clip shows a motorboat speeding across a calm body of water, leaving a white wake. A steep, rocky mountain looms in the background under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic film grain, scratches, and a narrow field of view, characteristic of amateur 8mm recordings from the era. The boat moves from right to left, creating a sense of motion and adventure in a remote natural setting.

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: 121486731

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: Useful for 1930s Washington home-movie requests needing a brief boating, mountain-waterway, or travel cutaway with visible amateur 8mm character.
Period detail: The 1938 date is supported by metadata, while the visible clues are mostly the small motorboat, monochrome 8mm texture, and remote rocky shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip feels like a traveler or passenger filming through a window frame as a motorboat passes across the water below a steep hillside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window-frame bars, rippled water, a small speeding motorboat, white spray, rocky slopes, shoreline, overcast sky, and film wear.
Film character: Grain, scratches, soft focus, uneven exposure, and the obstructing window frame give the shot a direct physical-film home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, travel transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for boating near a mountainous Washington waterway.
Historical context: The footage suggests recreational or transport activity on a mountain-lined body of water, without enough visible detail to identify the exact site or boat owner.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the frames, but copyright, location identification, and any collection-level restrictions should still be checked.
Research search match: Search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm motorboat, vintage home movie mountain lake, boat wake archival footage, and black-and-white waterfront travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Washington 1938 waterways, then broader 1930s boating, mountain travel, and home-movie landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a rocky slope and rippled water viewed through a dark window frame. — A mountain shoreline and water appear behind heavy window-frame shadows.

1938 Washington home-movie frame of a rocky waterside slope and calm water, partly blocked by window-frame edges. — The camera holds on the shoreline and water before the boat becomes clear.

Grainy 1938 Washington 8mm frame showing water, shoreline, and a patch of white spray against a rocky mountain slope. — White spray begins to show along the water beneath the steep hillside.

1938 Washington 8mm frame with a small motorboat crossing a mountain-lined body of water and throwing a bright wake. — A small motorboat cuts across the water with a bright plume of spray behind it.

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