Washington USA-1940: Military Man Walking By Beautiful Lake On A Warm Sunny Day

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

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Military Man Walking By Beautiful Lake On A Warm Sunny Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Washington USA in 1940 shows a man in military-style attire walking along a grassy lakeshore. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting a window or doorway, with a large lake and forested hills in the background under a partly cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion, capturing a quiet, nostalgic moment of a man strolling by the water on a warm day. The footage has a soft, authentic 1940s aesthetic with visible film scratches and a slightly faded color palette, evoking a sense of historical Americana and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121491984

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 military-era cutaway or personal memory beat.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1940s man in military-style clothing, with period cues limited to the source date, soft color 8mm stock, and informal outdoor filming.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged walk across a grassy lakeshore, filmed from a shaded threshold or window as a private home-movie observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone man, grass, lake water, forested hills, sky, shrubs, a tree, and a dark foreground frame.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, visible scratches, and gentle handheld exposure shifts that support its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, lakeside cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a 1940s home-front sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a military-style figure in a calm recreational landscape, suggesting everyday outdoor life rather than a formal military event.
Research note: A person is visible and military-style attire may need contextual review; copyright, likeness, and any location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Washington 8mm lake home movie, man walking by lakeshore, military-style figure outdoors, and vintage forested lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Washington 1940 lakeside material, then with related 1940s outdoor walking or home-front leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Washington 1940 8mm frame showing a shaded window-like foreground around a lake, tree, sky, and forested hills. — A shaded foreground frames the lake, tree, and distant forested hills.

Washington 1940 8mm frame with a man in military-style attire near a bright lake and forested hills. — A lone man stands near the waterline with the lake and hills behind him.

Washington 1940 8mm frame showing a man walking across a grassy lakeshore below wooded hills. — The man walks along the grass beside the bright lake.

Washington 1940 8mm frame of a man crossing the lakeshore, with water, shrubs, and forested hills behind. — A soft-focus lakeside view shows the man walking past shrubs and open water.

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