Washington-1938: Person Sitting In A Covered Picnic Area With Mesa And Water View

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

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Person Sitting In A Covered Picnic Area With Mesa And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a rustic stone shelter with a shingled roof overlooking a vast desert landscape. A person sits quietly within the covered picnic area, gazing out over the arid terrain. The scene shifts to reveal a prominent mesa under a cloudy sky, followed by a view of rippling water in the foreground, suggesting a remote natural setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film edge borders, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana is ideal for historical documentaries, nature studies, or nostalgic content.

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: 127414414

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 8mm home-movie footage for requests needing a quiet scenic cutaway of a rustic overlook, mesa-like terrain, and water in Washington state.
Period detail: The stone shelter, shingled roof, black-and-white 8mm image, and restrained visitor framing may show a 1930s roadside or park overlook setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor viewpoint, lingering from a covered picnic area toward open land and water rather than presenting a formal scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone shelter, shingled roof, open shelter bay, distant mesa-like ridge, cloudy sky, rippling water, shoreline, and dark film-edge borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm contrast, visible grain, vertical scratches, mild exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, location transition, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between broader 1930s western landscape material.
Historical context: The views suggest recreational observation of a dry, open landscape with water nearby, but the frames do not identify a specific park, dam, or landmark.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location permissions, and any property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm landscape, vintage home movie picnic shelter, mesa and water view, and 1930s western travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1938 Washington landscape material, then with broader home-movie travel, overlook, desert, and water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a rustic stone shelter with a shingled roof beside an open overlook. — A stone shelter frames the opening view across a broad, cloudy landscape.

1938 Washington 8mm frame of a mesa-like ridge or bluff seen across dry open terrain under a clouded sky. — A low ridge or bluff stretches across the horizon beneath heavy clouds.

1938 Washington 8mm frame looking across rippling water toward a low, dark ridge and pale shoreline. — Water ripples in the foreground while the ridge and shoreline sit beyond it.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing rippled water, a pale shore, and a broad ridge beneath clouds. — The shot settles on water in front of a long ridge and overcast sky.

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