Chelan Washington-1939: Stump In A Big Space Surrounded By Big Trees And Vines

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Stump In A Big Space Surrounded By Big Trees And Vines — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet forest scene in Chelan, Washington. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a tree stump in the foreground, surrounded by dense trees and tangled vines. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of nature untouched by modern development. The film's natural imperfections, including grain and soft focus, enhance its authentic archival quality. This clip evokes a sense of history and quiet wilderness, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127496205

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 as 1930s Pacific Northwest home-movie nature footage for documentary inserts, environmental history sequences, or quiet rural memory passages.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show a 1939 forest clearing near Chelan, Washington, with no visible roads, buildings, signage, or modern objects in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The steady home-movie camera observes an ordinary stump and surrounding woods without staging, people, or action, giving the scene a direct amateur field-view quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cut tree stump, open ground, scattered rocks or brush, dense trees, hanging vines or branches, dark film borders, and soft woodland background.
Film character: The scan carries strong 8mm grain, soft focus, contrast shifts, gate edges, and frame-line artifacts that give the brief shot clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, nature transition, establishing insert, or reflective memory beat between family, travel, or land-use material from the same era.
Historical context: The scene offers a small visual record of a wooded clearing in Chelan County home-movie footage, with emphasis on landscape rather than identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any property-context questions separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Chelan Washington forest home movie, 8mm woodland stump footage, black-and-white Pacific Northwest nature cutaway, and vintage rural landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan footage, then broader 1930s Washington forest, rural travel, or nature inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm view near Chelan, Washington, showing a cut stump in a forest clearing with vines, brush, and dense trees behind it. — A cut stump sits in a quiet forest clearing beneath dense trees and hanging branches.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Chelan, Washington, with a stump at the forest edge, tangled brush, pale ground, and tall trees. — The stump remains near the right side of the clearing with brush and trees filling the background.

Chelan-area 1939 home-movie frame showing a stump in a rough clearing, with low brush, tree trunks, and hanging branches behind it. — A grainy 8mm frame holds on the stump and surrounding forest under soft focus.

Final 8mm frame of the Chelan forest scene, with a stump partly low in frame, dense foliage, hanging branches, and visible film borders. — The shot ends on the same wooded clearing, framed by dark 8mm gate edges.

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