Washington USA-1938: Driving A Boat Amidst A Lake In A Beautiful Mountainous

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

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Driving A Boat Amidst A Lake In A Beautiful Mountainous — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1938, captured through a window frame with visible film grain and scratches. The clip shows a serene lake surrounded by rugged mountainous terrain under an overcast sky. A small motorboat with a single person glides across the calm water, moving from left to right across the frame. The landscape features rolling hills and distant cliffs, with a quiet, contemplative mood. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including soft focus and analog imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 121486801

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1930s Washington home-movie lake footage for productions needing a quiet boating, travel, or mountain landscape insert.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s leisure travel from the metadata, with a small motorboat and rugged lakeside terrain filmed through a window or frame edge.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective, watching a lone boater cross the water while the camera holds on the surrounding hills and cliffs.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat, calm lake water, rippled surface, rocky hills, distant cliffs, overcast sky, and dark window-frame borders.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, vertical scratches, slight exposure haze, and frame-edge obstruction give the footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective cutaway, travel transition, lakeside establishing beat, or memory fragment between outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The footage places recreational boating within a broad Pacific Northwest mountain-lake setting without identifying the exact lake or landmark.
Research note: A person appears in the boat, so likeness review may be needed even though no readable logos, music, or obvious private property are visible.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Washington lake boating, 8mm mountain lake footage, small motorboat home movie, and Pacific Northwest landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Washington 1938 outdoor clips, then broader 1930s lake, boating, and mountain landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington home-movie view of a small boat on a lake beneath rugged hills, partially obscured by dark window-frame borders. — A small boat moves across calm water with low hills beyond.

A small motorboat appears near the shoreline in 1938 Washington lake footage, with cliffs and rolling terrain in the background. — The boat passes near a long lakeshore below rocky terrain.

Rugged Washington lakeside cliffs fill the frame as rippled water crosses the foreground in soft 8mm footage. — A rocky cliff dominates the lakeside view.

A small boat travels across a Washington lake, framed by rounded hills and the dark borders of the filmed window view. — The boat continues across open water beneath distant hills.

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