Washington USA-1938: Views Of Motorboat Traveling Swiftly On Lake Water In

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

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Views Of Motorboat Traveling Swiftly On Lake Water In — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 showing a motorboat speeding across a lake in Washington, USA. The black-and-white film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film edge borders, capturing the boat cutting through the water with a wake against a distant shoreline. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with natural daylight and a slightly shaky camera movement, evoking mid-20th century recreational boating. This authentic historical clip is ideal for documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content about early 20th century leisure activities.

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: 121487108

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: Supports requests for 1930s Washington lake recreation, motorboating, and outdoor travel footage for documentary inserts or period atmosphere.
Period detail: The small open motorboat, black-and-white 8mm texture, and undeveloped shoreline may show late-1930s leisure boating in Washington.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged viewpoint of a home-movie camera tracking a fast boat from another moving craft on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, lake surface, foamy wake, distant shoreline, low hills, cloudy sky, and film frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, scratches, and handheld motion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, travel transition, recreation insert, or memory beat within a lakeside sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests recreational boating on an open lake with a sparsely developed shore, without visible people, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any underlying collection restrictions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm motorboat, vintage lake boating, home movie watercraft, and 1930s recreational travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake footage, then other Washington 1938 scenes, then broader vintage boating and water-recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small motorboat moves across choppy lake water in archival 1938 Washington home-movie footage, with hills faintly visible behind it. — Motorboat crossing rough lake water with a low shoreline in the distance.

A motorboat travels ahead on a Washington lake, seen from a moving home-movie camera with wake lines and a dark hillside behind it. — Boat traveling ahead as wake lines spread across the lake surface.

The motorboat passes near the lower frame of the 1938 Washington lake scene, with open water, wake, and a broad hillside shoreline behind. — Motorboat near the camera with low hills stretching across the background.

A closer view shows the small motorboat cutting across the lake in Washington, with rippled water, wake, and soft 8mm frame edges. — Closer pass of the motorboat as it cuts through rippled lake water.

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