Washington-1938: Speedboat Races Across Calm Waters With Scenic Mountain Backdrop

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

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Speedboat Races Across Calm Waters With Scenic Mountain... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a speedboat racing across calm waters with a scenic mountainous backdrop. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the boat moving swiftly from left to right, leaving a white wake behind. The landscape features rolling hills and a distant shoreline with faint structures, viewed through a window frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including scratches, dust, and slight flicker, evoking a nostalgic 1930s American recreational moment. Ideal for historical documentaries, archival projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 127414450

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 home-movie footage suited to documentary or editorial requests for recreational boating, water racing, and scenic shoreline travel views.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1938 small speedboat on open water, with period clues limited to black-and-white 8mm stock, distant shoreline, and a simple filmed-from-window vantage.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal spectator viewpoint, watching a boat cross the water from behind a dark window or railing frame rather than from a staged race position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a small motorboat wake, distant hills, low shoreline, cloudy sky, dark vertical framing bars, and worn 8mm film texture.
Film character: The footage has soft monochrome grain, vertical scratches, slight flicker, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, cutaway, or memory beat for recreation, travel, lakeside leisure, or early motorboat activity.
Historical context: The scene places recreational boating within a broad Pacific Northwest landscape, but the frames do not identify the specific body of water, race, or shoreline structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm speedboat, vintage home movie boat race, calm water mountain backdrop, and 1930s recreational boating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Washington 1938 material, then with related 1930s boating, lakeshore, mountain, or travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small speedboat on calm water below distant hills, viewed through dark vertical framing. — A small boat moves across calm water beneath a broad hillside backdrop.

A 1938 Washington shoreline view on 8mm film, with calm water, distant hills, and dark window-like framing in the foreground. — The boat passes out of view as the camera holds on water, shoreline, and hills.

1938 Washington home-movie frame with a small boat near the bottom edge, calm water, and a long low hillside beyond. — A small boat runs along the lower edge of the frame against a quiet shoreline.

1938 Washington 8mm view of a small speedboat and pale wake on calm water, with a distant headland and dark foreground framing. — The boat leaves a pale wake while crossing water below a distant headland.

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