Chelan Washington USA-1939: Mountain Lake And Forest Scenery In Vintage 8mm Film

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

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Mountain Lake And Forest Scenery In Vintage 8mm Film — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, in 1939, showing a serene mountain lake surrounded by dense evergreen forests. The clip captures a tranquil natural landscape with rocky slopes and calm blue water, viewed through a window frame with visible film grain and slight motion blur. A small boat is visible on the lake in some frames, adding a sense of scale and human presence. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with faded blues and greens, characteristic of early 20th-century amateur film. This archival material offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American nature and leisure, perfect for historical documentaries or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121508277

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: 1930s 8mm home-movie scenery from Chelan, Washington, useful for documentary inserts on mountain lakes, forest travel, and leisure landscapes.
Period detail: The faded color, soft focus, and amateur 8mm framing support a late-1930s home-movie reading, while the visible landscape itself has few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, looking across water and forested slopes from behind a dark window or frame edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue mountain lake, evergreen-covered hillsides, pale rocky slopes, shoreline, sky, and a small distant boat in some frames.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft registration, slight blur, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that preserve the physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, landscape insert, or reflective memory beat within a Pacific Northwest archival sequence.
Historical context: The view documents recreational sightseeing or travel in a mountainous Washington lake setting without showing identifiable people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1939 8mm Chelan Washington lake footage, vintage mountain scenery, Pacific Northwest home movies, or forest shoreline travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1939 Chelan or Washington lake footage, then with broader vintage mountain, forest, and travel scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing a blue lake below evergreen and rocky mountain slopes, partly obscured by dark frame edges. — A distant shoreline and forested mountain slope across the lake, viewed through dark vertical edges.

Chelan, Washington mountain lake scene with evergreen slopes, pale rock faces, and a small distant boat on the water. — A small boat appears on the lake below a forested rocky slope, giving scale to the landscape.

1939 8mm view of a Chelan lake shoreline, with calm water in front of evergreen trees and sunlit rocky ground. — Calm water fills the foreground as trees and pale rocky slopes line the opposite shore.

Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing rugged forested hills and rocky ridges above a mountain lake. — The camera looks toward rugged forested hills and rocky ridges above the lake.

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