Washington-1938: Boats Racing at Sea

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

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Boats Racing at Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures two small boats racing across a choppy sea. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a window or viewfinder, shows the boats moving quickly from left to right, leaving white wakes behind them. The landscape in the background is a rolling, grassy hill under an overcast sky. The grainy black-and-white image, with visible scratches and film artifacts, evokes a sense of early 20th-century recreation and nostalgia. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted footage of maritime leisure from the late 1930s.

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: 127414686

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 boating footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing small craft racing on open water.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show late-1930s recreational boating, with small motorboats, open water, low hills, and an overcast coastal or lakeside setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view from behind a dark window or rail, watching boats pass across choppy water rather than presenting a formal sporting event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two small boats, white wakes, rippled water, low grassy hills, cloudy sky, and dark vertical and horizontal framing bars.
Film character: The footage has a tactile 8mm character with coarse grain, soft contrast, visible scratches, gate edges, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime recreation insert, period cutaway, transition across water, or memory beat within a 1930s travel or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday recreational boating in a Washington waterfront landscape, but the frames do not identify the waterway, race organizers, or exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, though copyright status, location context, and any property or event permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington 8mm boats, 1930s home movie boating, small motorboats on choppy water, and vintage maritime recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other Washington 1938 waterfront footage, then with broader 1930s boating or coastal recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing small boats moving across choppy water, viewed through dark vertical and horizontal bars with low hills beyond. — Small boats cross the water beneath an overcast sky, partially framed by dark bars in the foreground.

1938 Washington home-movie frame with distant small boats on open water, white wake marks, low hills, and dark foreground framing. — Distant boats leave pale wakes across the water as low hills stretch across the background.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small boat and wake across rippled water, with a low shoreline and overcast sky in the distance. — A small craft skims across the water, leaving a bright wake below the low shoreline.

1938 Washington frame with two small boats moving across choppy water, their wakes visible below a low hilly shoreline and cloudy sky. — Two small boats pass across the choppy surface, separated by dark foreground framing.

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