Washington-1938: A Motorized Vehicle Speeding Down A Rural Road Through Hilly Terrain

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

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A Motorized Vehicle Speeding Down A Rural Road Through... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a motorized vehicle speeding along a rural road through a hilly landscape. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a classic automobile moving at high speed across a flat, open terrain with rolling hills in the background. The black-and-white image exhibits characteristic 8mm film grain, scratches, and slight motion blur, conveying a sense of speed and historical authenticity. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of early automotive travel in Washington state.

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: 127414573

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 travel, road movement, and rural landscape sequences needing real 8mm home-movie texture.
Period detail: The frames may show a period automobile seen from inside another vehicle or through a window, with open hills and water consistent with a rural 1930s trip.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the spontaneous feel of a traveler filming scenery and passing movement through a window rather than a staged road scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window bars, a small car or boat-like vehicle form, open water, scrubby shoreline, steep hills, broad sky, and film scratches.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, vertical scratches, and mild motion blur give the footage clear home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief travel insert, transitional road-memory beat, or cutaway for early motoring through open western terrain.
Historical context: The view suggests recreational or travel filming in a sparsely developed landscape, but the frames do not identify a specific road, town, or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though location and property context should still be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Searches for 1938 Washington 8mm road travel, vintage rural hills footage, home movie automobile movement, or Depression-era western landscape may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington travel footage, then rural road, water, hills, and early automobile themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame with dark window bars, water, shoreline, and a low vehicle-like form against distant hills. — A window-framed view looks across water toward open hills and a low passing form.

Black-and-white 8mm view in Washington, 1938, with window bars cutting across water and a broad rocky hillside. — Dark vertical bars split the landscape view across water and a rocky slope.

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a rocky hill, shoreline, water, and dark window framing. — The camera continues past a rocky hillside and shoreline seen through a window.

Washington 1938 8mm frame of open hills and water through dark window bars, with a small moving object near the shoreline. — A small distant form crosses near the water while hills fill the background.

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