Washington USA-1939: Waves Crashing Against Breakwater With Hills In Background

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Washington

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Waves Crashing Against Breakwater With Hills In Background — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1939 in Washington USA, showing a dramatic coastal scene with powerful waves crashing against a concrete breakwater. The black-and-white film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film edge borders, capturing the raw energy of the ocean meeting a man-made structure. In the background, rolling hills and grassy slopes frame the shoreline, with a few figures visible on the breakwater. The camera remains stationary, offering a fixed perspective of the natural force and engineering contrast. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-20th century Americana and historical coastal 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: 121489148

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 coastal home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts about shoreline infrastructure, rough surf, travel, or regional landscape atmosphere.
Period detail: The fixed 8mm view may show late-1930s coastal recreation or sightseeing, with concrete breakwater forms, open hills, and small figures providing period scale.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on waves striking the breakwater rather than staging people or action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include breaking surf, a concrete breakwater, rocky shoreline, rolling hills, water surface, film borders, and small distant figures.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows grain, scratches, soft focus, exposure flicker, and contact-frame edges that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, weather transition, engineering contrast insert, or brief memory beat within a Washington travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a man-made waterfront structure against open hills and heavy surf, suggesting everyday observation of coastal force without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: People appear only as small distant figures, but likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and property rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1939 Washington 8mm coastal waves, vintage breakwater surf, black-and-white home movie shoreline, or Pacific Northwest waterfront footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Washington coastal views, then broader 1930s shoreline, surf, and breakwater footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing surf breaking beside a concrete breakwater, with low hills beyond the shoreline. — Surf breaks against the shoreline near a concrete breakwater below low hills.

1939 Washington coastal frame with wave spray hitting the breakwater and open hills behind the waterline. — Wave spray rises beside the breakwater as hills stretch across the background.

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing white surf along a low coastal structure, with grassy hills and rocks visible. — White surf spreads along the coastal structure beneath open hillside.

1939 Washington coastal home-movie frame showing surf breaking along a low wall and rocky foreground under open hills. — A broad line of surf breaks along the shore with hills in the distance.

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