Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: Beautiful Landscape Where A Large Lake

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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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Beautiful Landscape Where A Large Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake view from a moving vehicle, likely a car, with a wooden railing visible in the foreground. The deep blue water reflects the surrounding lush green trees and a prominent forested hillside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, with a dark border framing the scene. The camera pans slightly, revealing the natural beauty of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, under bright daylight. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-20th century Americana and outdoor leisure.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266892

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 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: 1930s 8mm lake and mountain scenery suited for documentary inserts about New Hampshire travel, outdoor leisure, or home-movie views from a road or vehicle.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-1930s visitor view, with a wooden roadside or lakeside railing, saturated color, and a handheld 8mm framing style as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, looking past a railing and moving viewpoint toward water, forest, and hillside rather than presenting a formal scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, wooded shoreline, forested hillsides, a reddish wooden railing, a pale vertical post, dark film borders, and bright daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, saturated blues and greens, handheld movement, exposure variation, and dark frame edges that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic cutaway, travel-memory beat, regional transition, or establishing insert for northern New England outdoor footage.
Historical context: The view suggests recreational travel through a mountainous lake landscape, but the frames do not identify a specific landmark beyond the supplied Mount Washington, New Hampshire metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm New Hampshire lake footage, Mount Washington home movie landscape, vintage mountain lake scenery, and roadside travel view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel New Hampshire travel shots, then with 1938 Mount Washington material, then with broader 1930s lake, road, and mountain scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm Mount Washington, New Hampshire view of a blue lake, wooded shoreline, and reddish railing from a moving or handheld vantage. — Lake water and wooded shoreline appear beyond a reddish railing.

1938 8mm view near Mount Washington showing blue lake water, trees along the shore, and a reddish railing post in the foreground. — A railing post crosses the foreground of the lake and wooded shoreline.

Mount Washington, New Hampshire home-movie frame showing blue lake water, distant trees, and a pale vertical post near the lower edge. — The camera looks across the lake toward a wooded shore with a pale post in front.

1938 8mm Mount Washington area view of a forested hillside and rocky slope above a blue lake, with railing and post in the foreground. — A wooded hillside and rocky slope rise behind the lake.

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