Chelan Washington USA-1939: Hunters Returning with Deer on Sled

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

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Hunters Returning with Deer on Sled — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, USA, in 1939 shows a rural hunting party returning to a farm. Three men in red shirts and hats walk across a grassy yard, pulling a wooden sled carrying a harvested deer. A brown horse stands nearby, harnessed to the sled. The scene unfolds in front of a rustic wooden barn and a large evergreen tree, with the film's characteristic grain and color saturation of the era. The men appear to be celebrating a successful hunt, with one carrying a rifle. The footage captures a moment of 1930s Americana, showcasing traditional hunting practices and farm life.

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: 122610089

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 documentary or museum edits needing 1930s rural Washington home-movie footage of hunting, farm life, and a party returning with game.
Period detail: The red outdoor clothing, rifle, horse-drawn sled, wooden fencing, and barn setting may show Depression-era rural hunting practices and farm work.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the men from behind as they walk with the horse and sled, giving the scene an unstaged family-film view of a hunt's return.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three men in red shirts and hats, a brown horse, a wooden sled with a deer, a rifle, a grassy yard, fencing, a barn, and orchard trees.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, handheld framing, and mild exposure shifts that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, hunting memory beat, or transition from farm setting to orchard and landscape material.
Historical context: The footage places hunting activity within a farmyard and orchard landscape, showing the return with game as part of everyday rural home-movie record.
Research note: People are visible and one rifle and harvested deer appear, so likeness, firearm, animal-use, and possible property context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Chelan Washington 8mm hunting footage, horse-drawn sled with deer, rural farm home movie, and 1930s Americana.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Chelan or 1939 Washington footage, then rural hunting, farmyard, horse, orchard, and forest landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Chelan, Washington in 1939, men in red hunting clothes walk behind a horse and sled near a wooden barn and fence. — Hunters walk across a farmyard behind a horse-drawn sled near a rustic barn.

Three hunters in red clothing walk across a Chelan farmyard as a horse pulls a sled carrying a harvested deer. — The hunting party follows the horse and sled across the grass toward the barn area.

A soft 8mm view of orchard trees and distant hills appears after the farmyard hunting scene in Chelan. — The camera shifts to a blurred orchard and hillside landscape.

A Chelan orchard landscape shows rows of trees, hazy hills, and visible 8mm film marks at the end of the clip. — Rows of orchard trees sit below a hazy hillside in the final frame.

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