Chelan Washington-1939: Motorboat On A Mountain Lake

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

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Motorboat On A Mountain Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat navigating a calm lake surrounded by steep, forested mountains in Chelan, Washington. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the boat moving across the water, leaving a gentle wake. The image has a soft, grainy quality with muted blues and greens, characteristic of early color film. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet adventure and mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127497025

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: 1939 8mm home-movie footage from Chelan, Washington, suited to documentary or educational requests for lakeside travel, mountain recreation, and prewar American leisure imagery.
Period detail: The distant small motorboat, muted early color palette, and 8mm home-movie framing may show late-1930s vacation boating on a mountain lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming from behind a window or railing as a motorboat passes across the lake, preserving an informal travel observation rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, pale wake, rippled lake water, steep wooded mountainsides, dark vertical window framing, and soft film edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, muted blue-green color, slight frame instability, and contact-print edge shadows.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet travel cutaway, transition into Chelan or lake recreation material, or memory beat within a 1930s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure boating in a mountain-lake setting, with the camera position emphasizing the tourist or family observer’s view from shore or indoors.
Research note: A person may be visible only as a distant figure in the boat, so likeness risk appears limited but should still be reviewed separately from copyright and location rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm Chelan lake motorboat, Washington mountain lake home movie, vintage boating footage, and prewar American vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1939 Chelan or Washington lake footage, then with broader themes of mountain recreation, travel, and vintage boating.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant motorboat moves across a lake in Chelan, Washington, with forested mountains beyond and dark window framing in the foreground. — A small motorboat leaves a pale wake across the mountain lake.

The motorboat continues across the Chelan lake scene, framed by dark vertical foreground edges and a steep wooded shoreline. — The boat travels along the lake below a shadowed mountain slope.

A small boat appears low in the frame on the Chelan lake, with blue-green water, wooded mountains, and heavy dark window bars visible. — The moving boat sits low against the broad lake and mountain backdrop.

The motorboat is seen farther across the Chelan mountain lake, leaving a light wake under a steep, forested shoreline. — A distant boat cuts across calm water beneath the wooded slope.

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