Washington USA-1938: One Of The Person Travelling In A Boat And Surrounded By A

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

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One Of The Person Travelling In A Boat And Surrounded By A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in Washington USA, captured through a window frame with visible film grain and scratches. The black and white clip shows a small boat moving across choppy water, with a distant shoreline and hills under an overcast sky. The camera remains stationary, offering a nostalgic view of early 20th-century water transportation. The grainy texture and flickering light enhance the authentic, archival feel of this historic home movie.

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: 121486974

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Washington home-movie water travel footage for productions needing a short archival cutaway of a boat on choppy water seen from indoors or behind a window.
Period detail: The clip may show 1938 8mm travel filming, with a small motorboat, open water, distant low hills, and a dark window frame shaping the view.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the stationary, visitor-shot perspective, observing movement across the water rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a divided window frame, rippled water, a small moving boat, shoreline, low hills, heavy cloud cover, film scratches, and soft exposure shifts.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan has pronounced grain, vertical scratches, flicker, soft focus, and slight exposure variation consistent with original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, travel cutaway, or memory beat to suggest coastal movement and personal observation in the late 1930s.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for small-boat travel or recreation in Washington, with no identifiable people, landmarks, or named vessels visible in the frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or vessel rights should still be checked by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm boat footage, black-and-white home movie water travel, small boat on choppy water, and shoreline seen through window.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1938 Washington travel material, and then with broader home-movie water transport or coastal landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington home-movie frame looking through a dark window frame toward rippled water and low hills in the distance. — A divided window view frames choppy water and a low shoreline beneath heavy clouds.

Black-and-white 8mm view from Washington, looking past a vertical window bar toward rough water and a soft distant shoreline. — The camera holds on a window-framed stretch of water with hills fading into the cloudy background.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small boat moving across rippled water beyond a dark window frame and distant shore. — A small boat appears at left as the water moves beneath a low, clouded horizon.

Black-and-white Washington home-movie frame of a small blurred boat crossing choppy water below a low hillside shoreline. — The boat passes through the lower frame, softened by motion and the grain of the 8mm film.

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