Washington-1938: A Train Track That Crosses A Great Body Of Water

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Washington

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A Train Track That Crosses A Great Body Of Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic view of a long train track crossing a vast body of water via a massive truss bridge. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a train moving across the structure, with a mountainous backdrop under a bright sky. The final frames reveal a powerful dam with water cascading over its spillways, suggesting a hydroelectric facility. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: scratches, dust, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This footage is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content about early 20th-century infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127414108

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: Washington, 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 Washington 8mm footage helps satisfy requests for historic infrastructure, rail crossings, hydroelectric scenery, and documentary cutaways of large public works.
Period detail: The steel truss bridge, rail line, dam spillways, black-and-white stock, and soft 8mm registration fit a late-1930s home-movie record of regional infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the bridge and dam from a fixed vantage rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long truss rail bridge, a small train, mountain slopes, broad water, dam spillways, misting flow, dark film borders, and vertical scratches.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, gate weave, scratches, dust, and uneven exposure that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure insert, rail-travel transition, hydroelectric cutaway, or brief memory beat within a Pacific Northwest historical sequence.
Historical context: The view places rail transport and dam engineering in the same landscape, showing how large structures visually shaped waterways in Washington home-movie footage.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or landmark permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 Washington 8mm dam footage, train crossing truss bridge, hydroelectric spillway home movie, and Pacific Northwest infrastructure archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Washington 1938 material, and then with rail bridge, dam, waterway, or public-works footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a long truss rail bridge over water, with low mountains in the background. — A long rail bridge spans a broad waterway beneath a pale mountain backdrop.

1938 Washington frame with a small train moving along a high truss bridge above a wide body of water. — A small train is visible on the bridge as the structure stretches across the water.

Washington 1938 home-movie frame showing dam spillways and white water beneath the bridge structure. — Water pours over the dam spillways below the bridge supports.

Late-1930s Washington frame showing water cascading over dam spillways below a long steel bridge. — Cascading spillway water fills the lower frame below the long bridge.

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