Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: Woman Photographing Mountain Summit

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationMount Washington, New Hampshire, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Mount Washington New Hampshire

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Woman Photographing Mountain Summit — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a long brown coat and white hat standing on a rocky mountaintop at Mount Washington, New Hampshire. She holds a camera to her eye, seemingly photographing the expansive mountain vista. A classic wood-paneled station wagon is parked nearby on the gravel surface. The scene transitions to a wider view of the summit, revealing a rocky peak with a metal survey marker and a small structure, with a vintage car partially visible. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic 1930s home movie quality, evoking a sense of historical travel and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266747

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Mount Washington, New Hampshire, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s travel, New Hampshire mountain tourism, roadside summit visits, and documentary cutaways needing authentic home-movie footage of Mount Washington.
Period detail: The long coat, white hat, box-style camera, gravel summit area, and wood-paneled station wagon support a late-1930s leisure-travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor moment as a woman pauses on the summit to photograph the view while the camera operator records the scene nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman with a camera, rocky summit ground, distant mountain ridges, a wood-paneled station wagon, a summit marker, and a small structure.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, travel-memory beat, summit cutaway, or transition between broader sequences about 1930s motoring and mountain tourism.
Historical context: The scene shows recreational access to a mountain summit by automobile, with visitors using personal cameras to document landscape travel.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no brands or logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from any personal or property rights assessment.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s Mount Washington home movie, New Hampshire summit visitors, woman photographing mountains, and vintage station wagon travel may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Mount Washington or New Hampshire material, then broader 1930s road-trip and mountain-tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Mount Washington in 1938, a woman in a long brown coat and white hat holds a camera beside a parked wood-paneled station wagon. — A woman photographs the summit area beside a wood-paneled station wagon.

At the Mount Washington summit, the woman stands with a camera on gravelly terrain, with hazy mountain ridges in the background. — The woman pauses with her camera on the exposed summit ground.

A wider Mount Washington summit view shows rocky ground, a raised marker on the peak, a small structure, and blue mountain ridges beyond. — The camera shifts to the rocky summit marker and surrounding mountain view.

The Mount Washington summit marker and nearby structure remain in view, with part of a vintage vehicle entering the right edge of the frame. — A vintage vehicle appears at the edge of the summit marker view.

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