Chelan Washington USA-1939: Mountain Lake Surrounded by Dense Pine Forests

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

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Mountain Lake Surrounded by Dense Pine Forests — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, in 1939, capturing a breathtaking mountain lake landscape. The clip features rugged, forested mountain slopes and a serene lake, viewed through a window frame with visible film grain and slight motion blur. The natural scenery includes dense pine trees, rocky outcrops, and a clear blue sky, evoking a sense of peaceful nostalgia. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including color fading and subtle imperfections, offering authentic archival material for historical or documentary projects.

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: 122609918

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 1930s Pacific Northwest landscape requests needing archival 8mm mountain lake scenery for documentary, museum, education, or period atmosphere use.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1930s visitor-shot view of Lake Chelan area mountain terrain, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to date the scene within the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries an unstaged tourist or family-travel viewpoint, observing lake, slopes, trees, and rocky ridges through a dark window or frame edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, forested mountain slopes, rocky outcrops, evergreen trees, pale sky, dark frame edges, and a branch-framed hillside view.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, travel transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for Chelan-area outdoor recreation and mountain-lake sequences.
Historical context: The frames document a leisure-view landscape perspective rather than a built environment, emphasizing how home movies recorded scenic regional travel in the 1930s.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any underlying collection rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm Chelan Washington lake, vintage home movie mountain scenery, Pacific Northwest forested slopes, and prewar travel landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan or Washington views, then broader vintage mountain lake, forest, and outdoor travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing a forested mountain slope and shoreline above blue lake water, partly bordered by dark frame edges. — Forested lakeside slope and rocky terrain above the water.

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing rocky mountain ridges and scattered evergreen forest under a pale blue sky. — Rocky ridges and forested high slopes in the Chelan area.

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing blue lake water below a soft, shadowed forested mountain slope. — Lake water and a wooded mountain slope softened by the film scan.

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing dark evergreen branches in front of a sunlit rocky hillside with scattered trees. — Branches in the foreground frame a rocky, tree-covered hillside.

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