Washington-1938: Speeding Boat On The River With Mountains In The Background

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

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Speeding Boat On The River With Mountains In The Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a speeding boat gliding across a wide river with rugged mountains in the background. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by the projector's mask, shows the boat moving swiftly from left to right, leaving a wake behind. The scene evokes a sense of adventure and recreation in a natural landscape, with the distant hills forming a dramatic backdrop. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century outdoor leisure in Washington.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127414484

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Washington archival requests needing a short river recreation cutaway with a small fast boat and rugged shoreline scenery.
Period detail: The 8mm black-and-white home-movie texture and open river landscape support a late-1930s travel or leisure context, with no visible modern structures in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming from shore or another vessel, following a small boat as it moves across the water against distant hills.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide river, a small speeding boat, white wake, rugged mountain slopes, cloudy sky, shoreline, projector mask edges, and film gate divisions.
Film character: Grain, vertical scratches, soft focus, flicker, and the visible 8mm frame mask give the shot a physical home-movie character suitable for archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, outdoor recreation cutaway, or memory beat within a 1930s Pacific Northwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents river leisure or transportation in a mountainous Washington setting without showing people close enough for identity or social details.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still assess underlying film copyright and location documentation before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 Washington 8mm river boat footage, vintage home movie mountains, or black-and-white recreational boating cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Washington 1938 landscape footage, and then with broader vintage boating or river recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small boat moving across a broad river below rugged hills. — A small boat travels across the river beneath a mountainous shoreline.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a small boat on a Washington river with rocky hills beyond. — The boat continues along the open water with cliffs in the background.

1938 home-movie frame of a boat near the riverbank below steep Washington cliffs. — A small boat passes near the shore below steep, layered rock formations.

Black-and-white Washington river view with a small boat leaving a wake below a rocky hillside. — The boat leaves a pale wake across the river as the hillside fills the background.

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