Chelan Washington-1939: Motorboat with Passengers on Lake

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

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Motorboat with Passengers on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat with passengers gliding across a calm lake in Chelan, Washington. The boat, painted yellow and white, moves steadily through the water, leaving a gentle wake. Passengers are visible aboard, including a man in a red hat at the stern. The scene is framed by a dark border, with forested hills and mountains in the background under a soft sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 characteristics, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century 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: 127497065

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Northwest lake recreation requests needing brief home-movie views of small-boat travel, passengers, and mountain water scenery.
Period detail: The small cabin motorboat, casual passenger clothing, color 8mm stock, and dockside handling may show late-1930s leisure boating around Lake Chelan.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal visitor viewpoint, with the camera watching the boat approach, come alongside, and passengers interact without staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow-and-white boat, passengers, choppy lake water, dock edge, forested shoreline, mountains, and a brief dockside building view.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, slight fading, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, travel insert, lakeside memory beat, or transition into a Chelan recreation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents everyday leisure travel on a mountain lake, showing visitors and a small boat rather than a formal public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location, and any property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 8mm Lake Chelan boating, Washington home movies, vintage lake passengers, and Depression-era recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1939 Chelan or Washington lake footage, then broader vintage boating and lakeside recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Chelan home-movie frame showing a small yellow-and-white boat moving across open water with forested hills in the distance. — A small passenger boat moves across Lake Chelan with mountains and shoreline beyond.

The yellow-and-white passenger boat continues over Lake Chelan water, with distant trees, mountains, and 8mm frame edges visible. — The boat travels steadily across the lake, leaving a light wake behind it.

Near the dock at Lake Chelan, passengers sit aboard the small boat as lines or oars extend toward the pier edge. — Passengers are seen close to the dock as the boat comes alongside the pier.

A soft, handheld dockside frame shows several people gathered near a building entrance after the boating scene in Chelan. — People gather near a dockside building in a blurred home-movie frame.

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