Mount Washington New Hampshire-1938: Mountain Silhouette Against Cloudy Sky at Coast

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Mountain Silhouette Against Cloudy Sky at Coast — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a moody coastal view from Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The camera pans slowly across a dark, silhouetted mountain against a cloudy, overcast sky, with the sea stretching to the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a muted color palette typical of early 20th-century home movies. The dark frame borders suggest viewing through a window or lens, enhancing the nostalgic, archival feel. This atmospheric clip evokes a sense of quiet solitude and historical Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127267031

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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary inserts needing a quiet landscape view with water, overcast sky, and a dark landform silhouette.
Period detail: The frames show soft color 8mm exposure, rounded frame edges, and contact-print borders; the 1938 date is supported by metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on a distant view through dark frame edges rather than staging people or activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled water, a cloudy sky, a dark headland or mountain silhouette, horizon line, film gate borders, and muted coastal light.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and dark gate marks that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a subdued landscape cutaway, weather transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert between travel or regional scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects a private 1930s travel-film record of scenery, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or public event markers in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any underlying collection permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1938 8mm landscape, vintage home movie water view, cloudy mountain silhouette, New Hampshire travel film, and archival scenic cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with confirmed Mount Washington or New Hampshire 1938 footage, then with 1930s scenic water and weather views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm frame showing overcast sky, water, and a distant dark landform, with visible film gate borders. — Overcast water view with a low dark silhouette on the horizon.

1938 8mm frame with a dark landform silhouette on the right, rippled water below, and cloudy sky above. — Dark landform silhouette rises above the water at frame right.

1938 8mm frame showing a dark slope beyond water under cloudy light, with contact-sheet and gate edges visible. — A distant slope sits beyond the water under muted cloud cover.

1938 8mm frame showing water, overcast sky, and a small dark landform at the right edge of the composition. — The view opens to water and sky with land barely entering at the right edge.

Visually Similar Clips