Chelan Washington-1939: A Boat In The Sea

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

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A Boat In The Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a small boat gliding across a calm lake in Chelan, Washington. The view is framed by a dark window edge, with a rugged, forested mountain rising in the background. The water reflects a soft blue-green hue, and the boat moves steadily from left to right, leaving a gentle wake. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American lakeside journey.

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: 127497013

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 home-movie requests needing Chelan, Washington lake travel, small-boat movement, or quiet regional recreation cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show late-1930s amateur filming through a window or frame edge, with a small motorboat crossing a mountain-backed lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, watching a distant boat pass across calm water rather than presenting a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat, blue-green lake water, pale wake, steep wooded or rocky shoreline, dark vertical frame edges, and soft film grain.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, faded blue-purple color, slight softness, gate shadows, and contact-sheet edge marks that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a lake-travel insert, scenic transition, regional establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The scene places leisure or transport on a mountain lake in Chelan, Washington, without enough visible detail to identify the vessel, occupants, or exact shoreline.
Research note: A person may be present in the distant boat, so likeness review may still apply even though faces, brands, and private property are not discernible.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Chelan Washington lake boat footage, vintage home movie mountain lake, and small motorboat on calm water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1939 Chelan material, then with lake travel, boating, and Pacific Northwest landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan, Washington 8mm frame showing a distant boat on blue-green lake water beneath a rugged shoreline. — A small boat moves across the lake with a steep, shadowed shoreline behind it.

A distant boat travels across Lake Chelan water in a 1939 home-movie frame with dark vertical borders. — The boat leaves a faint wake against the blue-green lake surface.

1939 Chelan footage frame with a small boat low in the composition, mountain shoreline, and visible 8mm scan marks. — The boat appears near the lower frame as the shoreline fills the background.

A small boat continues across Chelan, Washington lake water in a faded 1939 8mm home-movie frame. — The boat continues across the lake, framed by dark scan borders and a muted mountain backdrop.

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