Washington-1938: Old Fashioned Footage Of Boat Motoring Across Water While Accelerating

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

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Old Fashioned Footage Of Boat Motoring Across Water... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat speeding across a calm body of water. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows the boat accelerating from left to right, leaving a white wake behind. A distant shoreline with low hills stretches across the horizon under an overcast sky. The grainy black-and-white image, with visible film scratches and dust, evokes a nostalgic, archival feel. A small flag is briefly visible on the shore. The clip offers a rare glimpse of early 20th-century water transportation and leisure activity.

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: 127414759

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 home-movie requests needing small motorboat leisure, water travel, or period recreational cutaways.
Period detail: The small open motorboat, distant undeveloped shoreline, and black-and-white 8mm framing may show late-1930s recreational boating in Washington.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a shore-based home movie, tracking a passing boat as it accelerates across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, white wake, rippled water, low shoreline, rolling hills, overcast sky, dark film gate edges, and tiny boat occupants.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, scratches, dust, gate shadows, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief water-travel insert, leisure cutaway, transition across a shoreline sequence, or memory beat for 1930s recreation.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor leisure and small-boat movement on a Washington body of water without identifying a specific harbor or landmark.
Research note: Tiny people appear aboard the boat, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are visible, and copyright status is separate from depicted rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Washington 8mm motorboat footage, vintage home movie water travel, small boat wake, and 1930s recreational boating.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington waterfront material, then broader 1930s boating or outdoor leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a small motorboat far left on open water, with low hills and an overcast sky beyond. — A small motorboat moves across open water near a distant low shoreline.

1938 Washington home-movie frame of a small motorboat accelerating across rippled water, leaving a white wake near the horizon. — The motorboat gains speed and throws a bright wake against the darker water.

1938 Washington 8mm frame with a small open motorboat nearer the camera, tiny occupants visible, and a low wooded shoreline behind. — The small boat passes closer to shore, with its occupants only faintly resolved.

Soft 1938 Washington 8mm frame of rippled water and a blurred shoreline, with strong dark gate borders and film texture. — The camera drifts past the shoreline as the boat sequence ends in a soft, blurred frame.

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