Chelan Washington USA-1939: Rocky Mountains with Evergreen Trees

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

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Rocky Mountains with Evergreen Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 1939 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, showing a rugged mountain landscape with rocky slopes and scattered evergreen trees. The film captures natural outdoor scenery with a distinct retro color palette and visible grain, typical of early amateur film. The camera appears to be moving, offering shifting perspectives of the forested hillsides under a clear blue sky. This archival footage presents a nostalgic glimpse of the Pacific Northwest wilderness, preserved in classic Super 8 style with natural light and subtle motion blur.

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: 121508060

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm mountain scenery for documentary inserts, regional archive context, or nature-history cutaways needing non-urban Pacific Northwest landscape material.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s amateur color film handling, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, or signage to refine the date beyond the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a traveler filming from a moving viewpoint, collecting quick scenic impressions of rocky hillsides, evergreens, and open sky rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky slopes, dry grass, scattered evergreen trees, distant ridgelines, blue sky, and dark contact-sheet borders from the scanned film frames.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, frame jitter, and contact-sheet edge marks that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory transition, wilderness cutaway, or regional landscape bridge between spoken-history or route material.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records how an amateur camera framed Chelan-area mountain terrain as scenery, without showing identifiable social activity or infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 8mm Chelan Washington mountains, vintage home movie forested hillsides, and Pacific Northwest rocky landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1939 Chelan material, then Washington mountain, forest, travel, and amateur 8mm landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan-area mountain slope with rocks, dry grass, a narrow path, and scattered evergreens in soft 8mm color. — Rocky forested hillside and pale trail seen from a moving home-movie viewpoint.

Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing rugged rock outcrops, dry grass, and a steep hillside under bright daylight. — Sunlit rocks and dry grass fill the frame during the mountain scenery sequence.

1939 Chelan-area landscape with jagged mountain ridges, evergreen forest, and clear blue sky in grainy 8mm footage. — Jagged ridgeline and evergreen trees appear beneath a clear blue sky.

Chelan-area mountain vista with layered ridges, scattered evergreens, rocky slopes, and soft motion blur from vintage 8mm film. — Layered mountain ridges and scattered evergreens close the short scenic clip.

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