Chelan Washington-1939: A Black Cat Walks Across The Ground And A Man Carrying A Sack

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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A Black Cat Walks Across The Ground And A Man Carrying A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a rustic moment in Chelan, Washington. The clip opens with a white directional sign pointing to Rainbow Falls, set against a backdrop of dense trees. A black and white cat walks across the ground, its fur pattern distinct in the grainy monochrome footage. The scene shifts to a man in a hat and work clothes, carrying a sack through a field, likely harvesting fruit from nearby trees. The film exhibits natural wear, including scratches and dust, characteristic of archival Super 8 home movies. This authentic slice of mid-20th century rural life evokes nostalgia and offers rich visual texture for historical or editorial projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127496293

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 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 for 1930s rural Washington, home-movie agriculture, pet, and roadside-sign requests needing brief documentary cutaways.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm monochrome texture, simple wooden direction sign, and orchard-like setting support a late-1930s home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an informal family-record quality, watching a cat cross nearby ground and a worker move through vegetation without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Rainbow Falls direction sign, dense trees, a black-and-white cat, a man in a hat, work clothes, a sack, and leafy plants.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, uneven exposure, scratches, dust, and slight frame instability that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-life insert, travel transition, orchard labor cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader Chelan-area scenes.
Historical context: The scene may show everyday rural leisure and farm labor in Chelan, with a visitor-shot sign followed by nearby animal and field activity.
Research note: A visible adult figure may require likeness review, while the sign and outdoor setting should still be checked separately for copyright and property context.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Chelan Washington home movie, Rainbow Falls sign, rural orchard labor, man carrying sack, and black-and-white cat footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan material, then rural Washington agriculture, pets, signs, and nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan-area home-movie frame showing a white Rainbow Falls direction sign set against dense trees. — A wooden direction sign points toward Rainbow Falls in a wooded area.

Black-and-white cat crosses the ground in grainy 1939 home-movie footage from Chelan, Washington. — A black-and-white cat walks across a sunlit patch of ground.

Adult man in a hat and work clothes carries a sack through leafy vegetation in 1939 Chelan footage. — A man moves through the field holding a sack near low trees or brush.

Adult man in a hat stands beside dense orchard-like vegetation while holding or carrying a sack. — The man pauses or turns beside thick foliage with a sack at his side.

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