Chelan Washington USA-1939: Mountain Landscape and Forest in Black and White

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Mountain Landscape and Forest in Black and White — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, in 1939, captured in black and white with authentic film grain and scratches. The clip opens on a misty mountain landscape viewed through a window frame, then shifts to a dense forest scene with trees and rocky ground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—high contrast, soft focus, and natural motion—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1930s home movie offers raw, unedited nature scenes ideal for historical documentaries, retro storytelling, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 121507435

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 requests for late-1930s 8mm American nature footage, especially mountain and forest cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence editing.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm image, window-framed mountain view, and rough outdoor forest scenes are consistent with prewar home-movie travel footage from the supplied 1939 Chelan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, shifting from a sheltered view toward distant mountains to brief observational shots of wooded ground and tree cover.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include misty mountain slopes, a dark window or frame edge, dense trees, bare branches, rocky ground, low brush, and a small cut stump or log form.
Film character: Soft focus, high contrast, visible scratches, gate edges, and uneven exposure give the short black-and-white 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature insert, regional transition, reflective cutaway, or brief memory beat between travel, landscape, or family-history scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a rural Pacific Northwest landscape encounter without showing people, signage, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, source permissions, and any location-specific reuse concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Chelan Washington 8mm mountains, black-and-white forest home movie, Pacific Northwest vintage nature footage, and prewar travel landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan or Washington footage, then broader 1930s mountain, forest, travel, and home-movie nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Chelan-area mountain view, partially obscured by a dark window or film-frame edge. — A hazy mountain landscape appears through a dark vertical frame.

Black-and-white Chelan forest scene with rocky ground, brush, bare branches, and a small cut stump or log shape. — Rocky forest floor and tangled trees fill the frame.

Soft black-and-white 1939 Chelan forest view with dense branches, brush, rocks, and a dark film edge. — A dense patch of forest and rocky ground appears in soft focus.

Chelan forest cutaway from 1939 showing tangled trees, scattered rocks, brush, and a small stump or log form. — The final frame holds on a wooded, rocky forest edge.

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