Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: A Long Bridge Extends Across A Large Lake

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

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A Long Bridge Extends Across A Large Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a long steel truss bridge spanning a wide body of water in Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the bridge extending across the lake under an overcast sky, with distant tree-lined shores visible. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and subtle film imperfections evoke a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, observational perspective of this historic infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266978

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 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: Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational requests needing a quiet bridge, lake, or travel-view cutaway from New Hampshire archival material.
Period detail: The distant bridge structure, muted color 8mm stock, and window-framed viewpoint may show late-1930s travel-era infrastructure as seen by an amateur filmmaker.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the bridge and lake from indoors or behind a window rather than staging a scenic panorama.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long bridge over water, a broad lake, distant wooded shoreline, dark window mullions, overcast sky, and a partial foreground building edge.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation give the short 8mm view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1930s regional sequence.
Historical context: The view places a bridge and wide body of water within a quiet landscape, suggesting travel observation without proving a specific landmark or event from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Good matches include 1938 8mm bridge over lake, New Hampshire home movie bridge view, vintage travel footage from window, and 1930s lake infrastructure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Mount Washington or New Hampshire 1938 material, then with broader bridge, lake, and travel-view footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New Hampshire home-movie frame showing a long bridge over a lake, distant shoreline, and dark window bars in the foreground. — A long bridge spans the water beyond a dark window frame.

Window-framed 1938 New Hampshire view of a bridge stretching across a broad lake beneath a muted sky. — The bridge continues across the lake toward the distant shore.

Soft 8mm frame of a long bridge crossing a lake in New Hampshire, partly obscured by the window framing. — A static view holds on the bridge, lake, and far shoreline.

1938 home-movie still showing a lake bridge, dark foreground window bars, distant tree line, and partial structure at the right edge. — The final frame shows the bridge receding across the lake.

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