Chelan Washington-1939: Steamboat On The Water

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Steamboat On The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a steamboat journey on a calm lake in Chelan, Washington. The view is framed through a window, with the boat's yellow hull and white smokestack visible as it emits thick black smoke. Snow-capped mountains rise in the background, their peaks partially obscured by clouds. The footage shows the boat moving across the water, leaving a wake behind, with the natural landscape passing by. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and scratches, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century travel memory.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127498185

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 documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects needing a Lake Chelan steamboat and mountain-lake journey view.
Period detail: The window-framed boat view, painted hull edge, smokestack, and soft color 8mm texture may show late-1930s leisure travel on Lake Chelan.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a passenger's unstaged viewpoint from inside or beside the vessel, watching water, wake, smoke, and mountain scenery pass by.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, boat wake, snow-capped mountains, cloudy sky, dark window framing, a yellow hull edge, and a white smokestack.
Film character: The scan shows period 8mm grain, faded color, gate edges, light scratches, soft focus, and exposure shifts that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, scenic transition, transportation cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Pacific Northwest or lake-voyage sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places passenger travel against a mountain lake landscape, without identifying the vessel, route, or any specific public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or vessel-identification needs separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Lake Chelan 8mm footage, Washington steamboat home movie, mountain lake boat wake, and vintage passenger travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan or Washington lake footage, then broader vintage boat and mountain-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Chelan home-movie view of snow-capped mountains and pale lake water through a dark window frame. — A window-framed view of lake water and snowy mountains during the boat journey.

1939 Chelan boat view with a yellow hull edge, white smokestack, dark smoke, and snowy mountain backdrop. — The boat's yellow edge and smokestack appear against the mountain lake landscape.

Lake Chelan travel footage showing churned wake, pale water, shoreline, and snowy mountains beyond the window frame. — Churned water trails behind the moving boat with mountains beyond the shore.

1939 Lake Chelan 8mm frame of foamy boat wake crossing the water, with mountain slopes and dark window edges visible. — Foamy wake crosses the lake surface as the mountain shoreline passes in the background.

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