Chelan Washington-1939: Squirrel Scurries Through Forest and Climbs Tree

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

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Squirrel Scurries Through Forest and Climbs Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a squirrel moving through a dense forest in Chelan, Washington. The black-and-white footage shows the small animal scurrying across the forest floor and climbing a tree trunk, its movements captured with the grainy texture and soft focus characteristic of early amateur film. The scene is framed by natural elements—bushes, rocks, and tree bark—creating an intimate, nostalgic glimpse into wildlife from the late 1930s. The footage offers authentic archival material for historical, documentary, or nostalgic content.

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: 127496270

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: 1930s 8mm wildlife cutaway useful for documentary, education, or museum edits needing authentic home-movie footage of a squirrel in a wooded Chelan, Washington setting.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, soft focus, and simple woodland framing support the 1939 home-movie context, though no visible landmarks or dated objects appear in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a squirrel at close range in an unstaged outdoor moment, with the animal partly hidden by trunks, brush, and the limits of handheld amateur framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, rough bark, dense brush, rocks, leaf litter, a squirrel near the ground, and bright patches of forest light.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with uneven exposure, soft detail, gate edges, and contact-sheet density shifts that read as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, nature transition, rural memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1930s Northwest home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of outdoor leisure or observation in a wooded Chelan-area environment without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any collection-specific permissions before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm squirrel footage, black-and-white home movie wildlife, Chelan Washington forest, and 1930s amateur nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Chelan footage, and finally with 1930s home-movie wildlife or forest cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing a squirrel low among rocks, brush, and tree trunks in a wooded area. — A squirrel moves near rocks and undergrowth at the base of trees.

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame with a large tree trunk, dense brush, and a small squirrel shape partly obscured near the lower left. — A tree trunk dominates the woodland frame as the squirrel remains partly hidden near the ground.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Chelan showing rough bark, brush, and a squirrel partly visible near the lower woodland edge. — The squirrel is partially obscured by brush and bark in the wooded setting.

1939 Chelan, Washington home-movie frame showing a squirrel partly hidden by a tree trunk and bright brush on the forest floor. — A squirrel appears partly concealed beside a tree trunk amid bright undergrowth.

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