Washington-1938: Motorized Water Vehicle With Amazing Speed On A Lake

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Washington

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Motorized Water Vehicle With Amazing Speed On A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a motorized water vehicle speeding across a lake in Washington. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the boat cutting through the water, leaving a wake behind as it moves past tree-lined shores and distant mountains. The camera appears to be handheld, offering a dynamic, first-person perspective of the journey. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—scratches, dust, and soft focus—adding to its authentic archival quality. This rare glimpse of early 20th-century recreation offers a nostalgic look at leisure and technology from the era.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127414475

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 Washington recreation, lake travel, early motorized boating, or scenic home-movie cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm footage of a small fast watercraft on a lake with wooded shorelines and distant hills, consistent with the stated 1938 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, as if filmed from shore or another moving position while following a speedboat across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake surface, small motorized watercraft, trailing wake, tree-lined banks, distant hills or mountains, cloudy sky, and heavy frame borders from the scan.
Film character: The footage carries a soft black-and-white 8mm texture with visible grain, scratches, gate marks, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for leisure, speed, lake travel, or Pacific Northwest outdoor recreation.
Historical context: The scene visually places motorized recreation within a broad natural lakeside setting, without enough evidence to identify the specific lake, vessel model, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location or vessel identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 8mm Washington lake footage, vintage speedboat home movie, motorized water vehicle, mountain lake recreation, and 1930s outdoor leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Washington lake material, then other 1938 Washington footage, then broader 1930s boating, water recreation, and mountain landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small fast watercraft moving across a lake with tree-lined shore and distant hills. — A small motorized watercraft moves across open lake water below wooded shoreline and hills.

1938 Washington home-movie frame of a motorized watercraft throwing wake on a lake near trees and low mountains. — The watercraft speeds past the shoreline, leaving a bright wake against the lake surface.

Wide 1938 Washington lake view with a small motorized craft near the lower frame, low shoreline, and distant hills. — A wide view opens across the lake toward a low shoreline and hills as the small craft passes near frame edge.

Final 1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small watercraft crossing a lake beneath low hills and cloudy sky. — The small craft continues across open water with hills and shoreline receding in the background.

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