Washington USA-1940: Man Sits Alone In Canoe On Calm Lake

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

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Man Sits Alone In Canoe On Calm Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1940 in Washington USA, showing a man in a small canoe on a calm lake. The grainy black-and-white film captures the man sitting alone, gently paddling or drifting near a wooden dock with other boats. The scene has a nostalgic, quiet atmosphere with visible film grain and natural light reflecting on the water's surface. This authentic archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into mid-20th century recreational boating and leisure activities.

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: 121492037

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 home-movie requests needing quiet recreational boating, lakeside leisure, or a brief Washington outdoor cutaway.
Period detail: The small canoe or rowboat, wooden dock, nearby boats, and black-and-white 8mm texture may show mid-century lakeside leisure without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged view of one man sitting low in a small boat, drifting or lightly paddling near shore from a private observer's viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a small boat, calm rippled water, a wooden dock or pier, moored boats, shoreline plants, and dark window-like frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft black-and-white 8mm grain, mild exposure variation, vertical wear marks, and a distant handheld viewpoint that preserve its home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet insert, lakeside transition, memory beat, or cutaway for recreation, solitude, or outdoor leisure in the 1940s.
Historical context: The scene documents casual lake recreation and small-boat use in a domestic home-movie context, with no visible public event or named location marker.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from likeness issues.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940 Washington 8mm lake footage, vintage canoe or rowboat home movie, calm water recreation, and mid-century boating cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Washington 1940 lake material, then broader 1940s boating, water recreation, or quiet outdoor leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Washington archival 8mm footage from 1940, a man sits alone in a small boat on rippled lake water near a dock. — A man sits in a small boat near a lakeside dock, seen from a distant home-movie viewpoint.

The man remains seated in the small boat as it drifts near a dock and another boat on a calm Washington lake. — The boat drifts beside a dock while the seated man faces across the water.

A distant home-movie frame shows the man in a small boat near shoreline plants, with a dock and moored boat behind him. — The boat passes closer to shoreline foliage while the dock remains visible above the water.

At the end of the clip, the man sits alone in the small boat on open rippled lake water, with no clear landmark visible. — The seated figure and small boat are isolated against the calm surface of the lake.

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