Washington USA-1940: Person Attempts To Swim Against The Current In A Large Lake

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Year1940
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1940 Washington

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Person Attempts To Swim Against The Current In A Large Lake — Clip Details

Black-and-white vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1940 shows a person struggling to swim against the current in a large lake. The grainy, low-resolution imagery captures the swimmer's efforts as they move through the water, with wooden posts visible in the foreground and a distant shoreline with trees and structures. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including soft focus, film grain, and dark vignetting around the edges. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century recreational activities and provides raw, unfiltered footage suitable for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

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: 121491493

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: 1940 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

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: 1940s Washington home-movie lake footage suited for documentary inserts about recreation, swimming, shoreline leisure, or small-scale water scenes.
Period detail: The footage may show a rural or lakeside Washington setting, with distant trees, low shoreline structures, open water, and dark foreground posts seen through a home-movie lens.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged view of a lone swimmer moving through open water while the camera watches from shore or behind a structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer in the lake, rippled water, distant shoreline, trees, small shoreline structures, and dark vertical foreground posts.
Film character: The clip has a black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, heavy grain, low contrast, vignetted edges, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for lake recreation, endurance in water, or archival shoreline atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary recreational or observational home-movie filming rather than a staged event, with the swimmer and shore recorded from a distance.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, audible music, or obvious private property appear in the frames.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1940s Washington lake swimming, black-and-white 8mm swimmer, vintage home movie lake, and person swimming against current.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1940 Washington lake footage, then broader vintage swimming or shoreline recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Washington home-movie frame showing a distant swimmer in a lake, with rippled water, shoreline trees, and dark vertical posts in front. — A swimmer is visible far out in the lake, framed by dark posts and a distant shoreline.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Washington showing a swimmer in open lake water, with a wooded shore and low structures in the distance. — The swimmer moves across the lake while the distant shoreline stays soft and indistinct.

1940 Washington lake frame showing a swimmer low in the water, with ripples, shoreline blur, and dark foreground framing from the camera position. — The swimmer remains partly submerged as the water surface fills most of the frame.

Black-and-white 8mm frame showing open lake water, a distant shore with low structures, and a small swimmer or surface detail near the waterline. — The final view holds on open water and the distant shore, with the swimmer reduced to a small mark near the surface.

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