Washington USA-1940: Man Waving At Passerby As He Rides In His Small Boat On The

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

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Man Waving At Passerby As He Rides In His Small Boat On The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1940, captured through a window frame. The clip opens on a lakeside cabin surrounded by evergreen trees, then shifts to a wide view of a person in a small boat on a calm lake with forested hills in the background. A man in the boat waves at the camera as he paddles, with another passenger visible. The film shows characteristic grain, slight blurriness, and vertical scratches, conveying a nostalgic, authentic mid-century American lakeside scene.

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: 121491935

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 Pacific Northwest home-movie requests needing a quiet lakeside boating moment, outdoor leisure cutaway, or personal-vacation texture.
Period detail: The small open boat, distant forested shoreline, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century recreational lake travel in Washington, without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged exchange as a man in the boat raises an arm toward the camera while another passenger sits nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake, small boat, two occupants, waving arm, forested hills, distant shoreline, window-frame borders, and film scratches.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, vertical scratching, and a framed-through-window composition typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for family travel, lakeside recreation, or rural Washington vacation sequences.
Historical context: The scene places people on open water against wooded hills, suggesting ordinary leisure and travel rather than a staged public event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940 Washington lake boating, 8mm home movie lake, man waving from boat, Pacific Northwest vacation footage, and vintage lakeside recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Washington 1940 lake or cabin footage, then broader vintage boating and outdoor leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Washington home-movie frame of a distant small boat on a lake, viewed through a dark window frame with wooded hills in the background. — A distant boat crosses the lake beyond the window-framed view.

A small boat appears far out on a Washington lake in this 1940 8mm frame, with forested hills and a dark window divider visible. — The boat remains distant against the wooded shoreline.

Two people ride in a small boat on a Washington lake, with one person raising an arm toward the camera in the 1940 home-movie frame. — One passenger raises an arm as the small boat moves across the lake.

The small boat with two occupants continues across the lake in Washington, with rippled water and wooded hills visible in the 1940 8mm frame. — Two occupants sit in the small boat as it passes across the rippled lake.

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