Washington USA-1938: Lake with Rugged Shoreline and Cliffs

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

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Lake with Rugged Shoreline and Cliffs — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1938, captured from a moving boat on a calm lake. The black-and-white film shows a wide view of a rugged shoreline with steep cliffs and rolling hills under an overcast sky. The water surface is textured with gentle ripples, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, vertical scratches, and a dark frame border typical of old home movies. The camera moves steadily, offering a scenic, contemplative view of the natural landscape. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content about early 20th-century American life.

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: 121486788

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: 1930s Washington 8mm lake scenery for documentary inserts, regional history segments, landscape transitions, or archival travel sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1938 home-movie view of a Washington lake with undeveloped rocky shoreline, rolling hills, and no visible modern structures.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming from a moving boat, holding on a quiet shoreline rather than directing action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, steep cliffs, low hills, overcast sky, dark frame edges, and scratched black-and-white film texture.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie character through soft focus, monochrome grain, vertical scratches, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel-memory beat, geographic transition, or quiet establishing insert between human scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests recreational or travel filming in a largely natural lakeside setting, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and location identification for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm lake footage, black-and-white home movie shoreline, rugged cliffs on water, and vintage boat-view landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Washington 1938 scenes, then broader 1930s lake, boat, and rugged shoreline material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a rocky lakeshore and rippled water from a boat-like viewpoint. — A rugged lakeshore rises beyond gently rippled water in a monochrome home-movie frame.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a Washington lake shoreline with cliffs, water ripples, and visible film wear. — Steep shoreline cliffs stretch across the far side of the lake, framed by aged film edges.

1938 Washington lake scene with low hills, distant shore, rippled foreground water, and scratched 8mm texture. — The camera passes a lower stretch of shoreline and hills across the lake.

Monochrome home-movie frame showing Washington lakeside hills and textured water with visible archival film marks. — Rolling hills line the far shore as lake ripples fill the foreground.

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