Washington USA-1940: Car Looking Out To The Forest And Then At A Lake With

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

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Car Looking Out To The Forest And Then At A Lake With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1940 in Washington USA, captured from inside a moving car. The clip opens with a view of a dirt road winding through a dense evergreen forest, then transitions to a calm lake surrounded by hills. The film shows natural colors with slight fading and visible grain, scratches, and dust typical of 8mm archival footage. The final frames reveal a person standing in a doorway, partially obscured by the window frame, adding a human element to the scenic journey. This authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana evokes nostalgia and serves as compelling archival material for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121491875

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: Useful for 1940s Washington home-movie requests needing a road-through-forest view and lake cutaway from a traveler perspective.
Period detail: The footage may show prewar-era recreational travel, with unpaved forest roads, evergreen hills, and color 8mm handling consistent with the supplied 1940 date.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged passenger viewpoint, looking from a moving car toward roadside trees and then across a quiet lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt road, tall evergreens, wooded hills, lake water, distant shoreline, soft sky, window framing, and film edge shadows.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, uneven exposure, visible grain, dust, scratches, and gate shadows that preserve the physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, scenic transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for Pacific Northwest outdoor recreation.
Historical context: The scenes place a private camera inside a car and beside a lake, suggesting leisure travel through forested Washington without identifying a specific park or landmark.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright status plus possible likeness concerns because the clip metadata flags a visible person, though no brands or logos are evident in these stills.
Research search match: Search matches include 1940s Washington 8mm forest road, vintage home movie lake and hills, moving car forest view, and Pacific Northwest travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Washington 1940 footage, then related forest road, lake, mountain, and road-trip home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Washington 8mm frame showing a dirt road receding through dense evergreen trees from a passenger viewpoint. — A forest road runs between tall evergreens, viewed from inside or near a moving car.

1940 Washington home-movie frame of a pale dirt road stretching through evergreen forest, partly bordered by dark car or film framing. — The road continues through a wooded corridor with sunlight on the track.

1940 Washington 8mm frame showing a calm lake below a wooded hillside, with dark vertical framing at the sides. — A quiet lake fills the foreground beneath a forested slope.

1940 Washington home-movie frame of a lake bordered by wooded hills, with light scratches and soft color fading. — The camera looks across the lake toward low forested hills.

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