Washington-1938: A Very Fast Motorboat On A Lake With Houses And Trees And

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

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A Very Fast Motorboat On A Lake With Houses And Trees And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a fast motorboat speeding across a calm lake in Washington. The black-and-white footage shows the boat moving from left to right, leaving a white wake behind. In the background, a small lakeside settlement with houses and trees sits at the base of rolling hills under a cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and natural motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel of a mid-20th century lakeside outing.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & whiteSlow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127414517

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 lake recreation requests needing a brief 8mm motorboat cutaway or scenic outdoor insert.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s leisure boating, with a small motorboat, low lakeside houses, open shoreline, trees, and hills visible across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing a fast boat passing across the lake rather than staging a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, white wake, calm lake surface, shoreline trees, small houses, rolling hills, cloudy sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, scratches, uneven exposure, and light handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for lakeside travel, boating, outdoor recreation, or Washington landscape sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for recreational boating near a lakeside settlement in Washington, without identifying the lake, town, or people involved.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1938 Washington 8mm lake motorboat, vintage home movie boating, black-and-white lakeside houses, and 1930s outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel lake or travel footage, then Washington 1938 material, then broader 1930s boating, lakeside settlement, or home-movie recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a fast motorboat crossing a lake near distant houses, trees, and hills. — A motorboat passes quickly across the lake, leaving a pale wake below a cloudy hillside shoreline.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a small motorboat moving past a Washington lakeshore with houses, trees, and hills. — The boat continues along the shoreline, its wake bright against the darker lake and distant hills.

1938 Washington home-movie frame with a motorboat low in the shot, open lake water, shoreline, hills, and clouds. — A wider view places the boat low in frame against open water, a sparse shore, and broad hills.

Wide black-and-white 8mm frame of a distant motorboat on a Washington lake below rolling hills and a cloudy sky. — The boat appears farther across the lake as the shoreline and low hills fill most of the frame.

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