Chelan Washington USA-1939: Two People Paddling a Canoe

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

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Two People Paddling a Canoe — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, in 1939, showing two people in a small canoe paddling across a calm lake. The grainy black-and-white image features visible film scratches and dust, characteristic of early 8mm and 8mm home movies. The subjects, likely a man and woman, are seated and using oars to propel the canoe, with a natural shoreline visible in the background. The footage captures a quiet, nostalgic moment of outdoor recreation from the late 1930s, with a soft focus and slight camera shake typical of handheld amateur recordings.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121507633

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 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: Useful for 1930s Pacific Northwest leisure, lake recreation, or home-movie inserts needing a quiet canoeing moment from prewar American family footage.
Period detail: The small canoe, distant wooded shoreline, monochrome 8mm image, and 1939 Chelan metadata support a late-1930s outdoor recreation setting.
Home-movie behavior: Two people sit low in a canoe and paddle across calm water, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of casual lake activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small canoe, two seated paddlers, calm lake water, a soft shoreline, trees or brush, heavy grain, scratches, and frame-edge exposure.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, high grain, dust, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability typical of early amateur 8mm material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, seasonal transition, or visual bridge for lake holidays and outdoor recreation sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary recreational boating on Lake Chelan without identifying the people or making claims beyond the visible canoeing activity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, music, private property, or children are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Chelan Washington canoe footage, 1930s 8mm lake recreation, vintage home movie paddling, and Pacific Northwest boating archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Chelan footage, then other 1939 Washington lake material, then broader 1930s boating or family recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two distant people paddle a small canoe on Lake Chelan in 1939, seen in soft black-and-white 8mm home-movie footage. — Two people in a small canoe move across calm water with a faint shoreline in the background.

A distant canoe carrying two people crosses the lake at Chelan, Washington, in grainy 1939 8mm footage. — The canoe remains distant as two seated figures paddle across the lake.

Two canoeists appear low in the frame on Lake Chelan, with a soft shoreline and visible 8mm scratches from the 1939 home movie. — A scratched home-movie frame shows the canoe lower in the picture against open water.

The 1939 Chelan canoe scene shows two seated paddlers on calm water, framed by heavy grain, scratches, and a distant shore. — Two paddlers in a small canoe are framed by calm water and the faint lake edge.

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