Washington USA-1940: Aerial Footage From Small Town Plane Over Fields And Town

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

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Aerial Footage From Small Town Plane Over Fields And Town — Clip Details

Aerial 8mm footage from Washington USA in 1940, captured from a small plane flying over rural farmland and a small town. The grainy black-and-white film shows a sweeping view of agricultural fields, scattered buildings, and a distant shoreline. The camera moves steadily, revealing the landscape below with vintage film grain and natural motion blur. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Americana, ideal for historical documentaries, archival projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121491667

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: 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: Supports archive requests for 1940s Washington aerial home-movie views of rural fields, small-town settlement, and shoreline for documentary or educational context.
Period detail: The distant farmland, sparse buildings, and small-plane window framing may show a prewar or early-1940s rural Washington landscape from a private flight.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of a personal passenger viewpoint, looking down through aircraft framing rather than a staged survey or professional aerial pass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include aircraft window bars, open fields, faint roads or field lines, clustered buildings, distant shoreline or water, haze, and film grain.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows pronounced grain, soft exposure, window obstruction, and light motion blur consistent with home-movie aerial filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief aerial insert, travel transition, geographic establishing beat, or memory-like cutaway to rural Washington.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for mid-century rural land patterns and small-town scale without identifying a specific community or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, aircraft context, and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1940s 8mm aerial footage, Washington farmland from plane, small-town aerial home movie, or rural shoreline flyover.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel aerial shots, then other Washington 1940 footage, then broader rural aviation, farmland, small-town, and shoreline views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Washington 8mm aerial view through dark aircraft framing, with rural fields and a faint cluster of buildings below. — Rural fields and a small settlement appear below the plane, partly obscured by aircraft window framing.

Aerial 8mm frame from Washington in 1940, showing patchy fields and a distant town area beyond a dark plane window bar. — Patchy farmland and distant buildings pass beneath the aircraft window frame.

Washington aerial home-movie frame with dark aircraft framing, soft shoreline or water edge, and pale rural terrain below. — The view softens over a possible shoreline or water edge with fields below the aircraft.

Final 1940 Washington aerial frame shows faint fields or shoreline through haze and grain, divided by aircraft window framing. — A hazy aerial view fades into soft fields or shoreline behind the plane window bar.

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