Mount Washington New Hampshire-1939: A Sunny Day At The Lake With Plenty Of Wind

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMount Washington, New Hampshire, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Mount Washington New Hampshire

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A Sunny Day At The Lake With Plenty Of Wind — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The wide shot reveals a vast body of water under a partly cloudy sky, with distant tree-lined hills and the silhouette of the mountain range in the background. Lush green foliage frames the foreground, swaying gently in the wind. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a peaceful summer day in the 1930s.

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: 127269671

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: 1939 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: 1930s 8mm lakeside landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, regional history programs, museum media, or atmospheric transitions about travel and outdoor leisure.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1939 visitor view near Mount Washington, with no visible vehicles, buildings, clothing, or signage to independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, lingering on wind, water, foliage, and distant hills rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad lake, distant wooded shoreline, hazy mountain ridges, partly cloudy sky, foreground leaves, and a small dock or railing near the water.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, gate edges, color fading, mild flicker, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, location-establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into a New England outdoor sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a leisure view of a lake and mountain landscape, useful as visual context for prewar American travel or family vacation material without asserting a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any shoreline property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm lake view, New Hampshire mountain lake, Mount Washington home movie, windy lakeside landscape, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with confirmed Mount Washington or New Hampshire 1939 material, then with broader 1930s lake and mountain travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm home-movie view near Mount Washington showing a lake, distant hills, mountain ridges, clouds, and leaves in the foreground. — A lake stretches toward distant hills and hazy mountain ridges under a partly cloudy sky.

1939 lakeside 8mm frame near Mount Washington with open water, a low shoreline, blue mountain silhouettes, clouds, and windblown foreground plants. — Open water and a low tree-lined shore sit below distant mountain silhouettes.

1939 Mount Washington-area lake view with leafy foreground plants, a small dock or railing at left, open water, distant wooded hills, and clouds. — Foreground plants and a small lakeside structure frame the view across the water.

1939 8mm lakeside frame near Mount Washington showing windblown leaves, a small railing or dock, broad water, distant shoreline, and hazy mountains. — Windblown leaves and a small lakeside structure appear before the lake and distant mountains.

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