Chelan Washington-1939: Mountain Landscape near Chelan, Washington

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

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Mountain Landscape near Chelan, Washington — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a scenic journey through Chelan, Washington, viewed from a moving vehicle. The footage shows rugged mountain ranges under a clear blue sky, with dense evergreen forests covering the slopes. The perspective shifts across the frames, suggesting motion along a mountain road. The image quality reflects the era, with natural film grain, slight blurriness, and subtle color fading typical of Super 8 home movies. This authentic archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127496700

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 travel footage for documentaries needing a scenic mountain-road view of Chelan, Washington, or Pacific Northwest road-trip atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm home-movie scenery with no visible vehicles or people, so period detail comes mainly from the 1939 metadata and the physical-film appearance.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vehicle, valuing the passing view more than a composed landscape scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky mountain ridges, evergreen trees, dry slopes, clear blue sky, motion blur, frame borders and film gate divisions.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, exposure variation and gate-edge shadows that read as original 8mm travel-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic cutaway, road-trip transition, memory beat, or regional establishing insert for Washington travel material.
Historical context: The view reflects recreational or personal travel through mountainous Washington terrain, without visible people, towns, signage or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No faces, logos or private interiors are visible, but copyright status, location identification and any landscape/property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm Chelan Washington mountains, vintage home movie mountain road, Pacific Northwest travel footage and evergreen ridge scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan or Washington travel clips, then broader vintage mountain-road and forest landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington travel footage showing a rocky mountain ridge and scattered evergreens from a moving viewpoint. — A rocky ridge and evergreen-covered slope pass through the 8mm frame.

Mountain terrain near Chelan appears beyond blurred roadside evergreens in this 1939 home-movie frame. — Pale rock faces and roadside trees blur as the camera moves past the mountains.

Chelan-area mountain ridges and evergreen forest are seen from a moving vehicle in 1939 8mm footage. — The view tracks across forested, rocky high country under a blue sky.

A sunlit rocky hill and scattered evergreens appear in the Chelan, Washington travel footage from 1939. — A bright rocky slope fills the frame as the moving view continues.

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