Washington-1938: Open Water With Some Mountains In The Distance Clouds Overhead

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

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Open Water With Some Mountains In The Distance Clouds... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape in Washington. The black-and-white footage shows calm open water with rugged mountains rising in the distance under a cloudy sky. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing layered cliffs and the natural contours of the shoreline. Grainy texture and film scratches are visible throughout, enhancing the authentic archival quality. This atmospheric clip evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and untouched wilderness from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127414430

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: Useful for 1930s Pacific Northwest documentary sequences needing quiet 8mm lake, shoreline, and mountain atmosphere without people or built structures visible.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1938 visitor-shot landscape view, with period clues limited to black-and-white 8mm stock, handheld framing, and the absence of modern development in view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries home-movie value through a slow observational pan from water toward rocky slopes, suggesting a traveler recording scenery rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm open water, distant cliffs, sloping mountain faces, layered shoreline, cloudy sky, dark frame edges, and vertical film wear.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, soft contrast, gate shadows, scratches, and slight exposure variation that help identify it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, regional transition, reflective memory beat, or quiet cutaway between travel or wilderness scenes.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for recreational or travel filming in Washington during the late 1930s, while the frames themselves show only landscape and water.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Washington 8mm lake footage, black-and-white mountain shoreline home movie, Pacific Northwest water and cliffs, and vintage scenic travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington landscapes, then broader 1930s lake, mountain, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1938 Washington home-movie frame showing open water, a distant rocky cliff, low mountains, and cloudy sky. — Open water and layered cliffs under a cloudy sky, seen through dark 8mm frame edges.

Black-and-white frame of a Washington lakeside landscape with calm water, rocky cliffs, distant slope, and visible film wear. — The pan holds on a distant cliff face and shoreline across still water.

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a broad sloping mountainside beside open water, with grain and scratches visible. — A closer view of the sloped shoreline and mountain face above the water.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Washington showing a rocky shoreline slope meeting open water, with cloudy sky mostly out of view. — Rocky shoreline slopes down to the lake as the camera continues its scenic pan.

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