Chelan Washington-1939: Steamboat on Lake with Mountain Backdrop

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

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Steamboat on Lake with Mountain Backdrop — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a scenic journey on a lake in Chelan, Washington. The clip opens with a steamboat gliding across the water, leaving a white wake against the backdrop of rugged, sun-drenched mountains. Passengers aboard include a man in a red hat and a woman in a dark coat and sunglasses, both enjoying the ride. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century travel and leisure. This authentic archival film is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 127496629

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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Topics & Keywords

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Pacific Northwest travel, leisure, lake excursion, and home-movie sequences needing authentic 8mm vacation footage.
Period detail: The passengers' hats, sunglasses, coat, and casual boat-deck seating may show late-1930s recreational travel style, supported by the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged vacation perspective, watching a steamboat on the lake and lingering on passengers enjoying the ride.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boat wake on blue water, rocky mountain slopes, seated passengers, bright hats, a woman in sunglasses, railings, and sunlit lake spray.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded color, gate edges, and handheld exposure shifts that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, lake excursion cutaway, or memory beat in a regional-history sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places leisure travel on Lake Chelan within a mountain landscape without making claims beyond the home-movie record and supplied 1939 location metadata.
Research note: People are visible and at least one face is readable, so copyright review should be separate from likeness and contextual-use assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Lake Chelan home movie, Washington lake steamboat footage, vintage mountain lake travel, and prewar vacation boat ride.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Chelan travel scenes, then other 1939 Washington lake footage, then broader vintage boat excursion or mountain vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington home-movie frame showing a steamboat leaving a white wake on a mountain lake. — A steamboat moves across Lake Chelan with rocky slopes rising behind it.

Passengers sit aboard a lake boat in Chelan, Washington, with trees and deck hardware visible in the background. — Passengers relax on the boat deck during the lake journey.

A woman in sunglasses and a dark coat sits on the boat, with bright lake water and wake behind her. — A passenger in sunglasses sits near the wake on the lake excursion.

Close home-movie view of a woman passenger in sunglasses on a 1939 Chelan lake boat ride. — The camera lingers on a woman passenger seated against the bright lake wake.

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