Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: Lake with Bridge and Surrounding Hills

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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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Lake with Bridge and Surrounding Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of a lake with a long bridge spanning the water. The footage, framed by the dark borders of a projector, shows a hilly shoreline in the foreground and distant hills under a muted sky. The image has a soft, grainy quality with faded purple and gray tones, characteristic of early color film. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing the bridge's structure and the surrounding natural scenery. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in the late 1930s, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127266999

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 home-movie landscape footage for productions needing a quiet lake-and-bridge view tied to Mount Washington, New Hampshire metadata.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s color home-movie travel footage, with a long bridge, wooded hills, muted sky, and dark projector or gate borders visible in the scan.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has a visitor-shot viewpoint from an elevated hillside, slowly observing the water, bridge, and distant terrain rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad lake, a long bridge or causeway, wooded slopes, distant hills, muted clouded sky, dark film borders, and soft 8mm color grain.
Film character: The footage carries faded purple-gray color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and dark rounded frame edges typical of scanned small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a regional establishing shot, travel-memory cutaway, scenic transition, or reflective insert between stronger narrative moments.
Historical context: The view suggests recreational travel or sightseeing in rural New Hampshire, but the frames do not confirm the exact lake, bridge name, or route.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location identification and any copyright, property, or collection permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm New Hampshire lake bridge, Mount Washington home movie landscape, vintage lake panorama, and rural bridge travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Mount Washington or New Hampshire views, then broader 1930s lake, bridge, and mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Mount Washington, New Hampshire home-movie frame showing a lake, long bridge, hillside foreground, and distant low hills. — A long bridge spans the lake beyond a dark wooded hillside.

1938 New Hampshire travel frame with a hillside foreground overlooking a lake and a long bridge crossing the water. — The camera holds an elevated view across the lake toward a bridge and far hills.

Soft 8mm frame from the 1938 Mount Washington clip, with a wooded slope above a lake and the bridge partly cropped at right. — The bridge slips toward the edge of the frame as the hillside fills more of the foreground.

Final 1938 New Hampshire frame showing a hillside foreground, lake water, distant hills, muted sky, and dark 8mm frame edges. — The view settles on the hillside and lake, with distant terrain fading under a muted sky.

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