Washington-1938: Motorboat Driving Quickly On A Lake Surrounded By Hilly Terrain

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

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Motorboat Driving Quickly On A Lake Surrounded By Hilly... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a motorboat speeding across a lake, leaving a white wake behind. The black-and-white footage shows the boat navigating choppy waters with a hilly, tree-covered shoreline in the background. The grainy texture and vertical scratches are characteristic of Super 8 home movie film. The camera appears to be handheld, following the boat's movement, creating a dynamic, nostalgic view of mid-century recreation. This archival clip evokes a sense of classic Americana and personal memory.

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: 127414913

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 requests needing 1930s Washington home-movie footage of recreational boating, lake travel, or outdoor leisure for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The small motorboat, black-and-white 8mm look, and open shoreline may show late-1930s recreational boating in Washington without identifiable landmarks or brands.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation, with the camera tracking a fast boat from another moving vantage point on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, white wake, rippled lake water, hilly shoreline, cloudy sky, distant scrub or trees, and dark frame edges from the scan.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture with pronounced grain, soft focus, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, and handheld motion following the boat.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel insert, recreation beat, or transition into a sequence about lakeside leisure or small craft movement.
Historical context: The scene visually supports a broader context of outdoor recreation and motorized lake travel in the 1930s, while the exact lake and participants are not identified.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use concerns should be checked before release.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Washington 8mm home movie motorboat, vintage lake boating footage, 1930s recreational boat wake, and hilly shoreline water travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington footage, then broader 1930s lake, boat, travel, and outdoor recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a motorboat moving across a lake, with a hilly shoreline and dark film-frame edges visible. — A motorboat moves quickly across the lake as the camera catches it through dark frame edges.

1938 Washington 8mm frame of a small motorboat speeding over rippled lake water with hills along the far shore. — The boat pulls away across choppy water, leaving a bright wake behind it.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a motorboat near the lower edge of the lake, backed by a broad hilly shoreline. — The motorboat passes beneath a long hillside, with wake patterns spreading across the water.

1938 Washington 8mm frame of a small motorboat moving fast across a lake, with white spray, wake, and hilly terrain behind. — The boat cuts across the frame with spray at its side and a wake trailing into the lake.

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