Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: Old Footage Of The Shoreline On A Partly Cloudy Day

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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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Old Footage Of The Shoreline On A Partly Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene shoreline view from a fixed perspective, likely through a window frame. The scene features a dark, silhouetted mountain ridge against a pale, overcast sky with soft, diffused light. The film shows natural grain, scratches, and slight fading, characteristic of early 20th-century amateur footage. The calm water stretches across the lower frame, with subtle movement suggesting gentle waves. The overall mood is quiet and contemplative, evoking a sense of historical nostalgia and personal memory from a bygone era.

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: 127267029

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

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 1930s archival requests needing a quiet Mount Washington area shoreline or mountain-view cutaway for documentary, education, or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The footage may show a visitor-shot 1938 view through a dark window frame, with no visible clothing, vehicles, signs, or built landmarks to confirm period beyond the film metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed viewpoint suggests an amateur home-movie operator pausing indoors or from shelter to record water, sky, and a distant ridge rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark window grid, pale cloudy sky, calm water, distant mountain or shoreline silhouette, soft horizon line, film grain, and small scratches.
Film character: The 8mm scan has muted color, soft exposure, visible grain, gate weave, dust, and scratches that read as physical home-movie texture from the period.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a contemplative insert, scenic transition, weather cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more active travel or family footage.
Historical context: The scene reflects a leisure or travel perspective on landscape, but the frames do not identify a specific lake, shore, building, or public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, though copyright status and any location or property rights should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s 8mm shoreline view, Mount Washington New Hampshire home movie, cloudy mountain lake cutaway, and vintage window-framed landscape may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Mount Washington or New Hampshire material, then broader 1930s landscape and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Mount Washington area home-movie frame showing a dark window grid, pale cloudy sky, calm water, and a distant silhouetted ridge. — A window-framed shoreline view with a dark ridge against a pale, cloudy sky.

1938 Mount Washington area frame with a dark window crossbar, muted sky and water, and a low ridge silhouette entering from the right. — The fixed view holds on water and sky as the ridge silhouette shifts toward the right edge.

1938 Mount Washington area home-movie frame where lower window panes divide a muted shoreline view of pale water, sky, and faint horizon. — Lower panes frame a subdued water and sky view with the distant ridge mostly absent.

1938 Mount Washington area frame showing a dark window grid around a soft, grainy view of calm water, cloudy sky, and a faint distant horizon. — A static window-framed landscape holds on calm water beneath a pale, overcast sky.

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