Chelan Washington-1939: Boats on Wide Open Lake with Mountains

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

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Boats on Wide Open Lake with Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake landscape in Chelan, Washington. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a wide expanse of water with small boats gliding across the surface. In the background, forested mountains rise under a bright sky, their slopes dotted with evergreen trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century travel memory. The scene transitions from a distant shoreline to a closer view of rugged, rocky terrain, offering a glimpse into a quiet, natural setting from the late 1930s.

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: 127496841

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Pacific Northwest travel, lake recreation, and mountain landscape edits needing real 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and small boats on a broad mountain lake, with the 1939 Chelan setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering across water and shoreline scenery without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: The frames show a wide lake, small boats, dark film-frame borders, forested slopes, distant shoreline, rocky mountainside, and bright outdoor light.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, slight color shift, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and handheld instability give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, travel-memory transition, establishing cutaway, or quiet nature beat within a 1930s Washington sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually records leisure travel or sightseeing around a mountain lake setting before modern shoreline development is evident in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location context, and any property issues separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 8mm Chelan lake boats, vintage Washington mountain lake footage, and home movie Pacific Northwest scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then other Chelan or 1939 Washington footage, then broader lake, boat, mountain, and canyon landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington home-movie frame showing a broad lake, small boat, distant shoreline, and evergreen-covered slopes. — Small boat crosses a wide lake beneath forested mountains near Chelan.

1939 Chelan, Washington frame of lake water and a distant forested shoreline viewed through visible 8mm gate borders. — Distant shoreline and evergreen slopes across the lake.

Chelan home-movie frame from 1939 showing a small boat on open water below a pale rocky shoreline and wooded slope. — Boat moves across open water below a rocky forested shoreline.

1939 Chelan, Washington frame with a closer view of rugged rock formations and sparse trees on a steep mountain slope. — Rocky mountainside and scattered evergreens seen from a distance.

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