Chelan Washington-1939: Industrial Winch and Crane in Forest

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

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Industrial Winch and Crane in Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a large industrial winch and crane structure operating in a dense pine forest in Chelan, Washington. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a yellow control cabin and a tall metal tower against a backdrop of lush green trees and mountains. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and visible film scratches evoke a strong sense of mid-20th century Americana and industrial history. This archival clip offers authentic footage of early 20th-century forestry or mining operations in the Pacific Northwest.

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: 127498226

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: 1930s 8mm footage for documentary or educational edits needing Pacific Northwest industrial work activity in a forested mountain setting.
Period detail: The clip may show period logging, utility, or extraction equipment, with a yellow operator cabin and metal tower filmed in color home-movie stock.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a bystander or traveler filming from behind a window or vehicle opening rather than a staged industrial record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow control cabin, tall lattice boom, cable or hook lines, pine-covered slopes, distant mountains, window framing, and aged film edges.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, handheld framing, dust marks, scratches, and uneven exposure give the 8mm footage a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or contextual insert for rural industry, forest work, or Depression-era infrastructure themes.
Historical context: The view places industrial machinery within a dense Chelan-area forest landscape, suggesting work activity at the edge of mountain timber country.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but machinery and location identification should still be checked separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s 8mm forest machinery, Chelan Washington industrial footage, vintage winch crane, and Pacific Northwest worksite home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then Chelan or Washington 1939 material, then broader forestry, mining, construction, or rural industrial footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Chelan-area 8mm frame showing pine-covered slopes, a partial lattice boom, and foreground window or film-frame borders. — A partial view of industrial equipment against a forested mountain slope.

1939 Chelan, Washington footage frame with a yellow control cabin, lattice tower, forested hills, and soft faded 8mm color. — A yellow industrial cabin stands below a tall metal tower in the forest.

Chelan-area 1939 home-movie frame showing a tall boom over a yellow work cabin, with trees and hills behind it. — The boom and yellow cabin are centered against the forested hillside.

Faded 8mm frame from 1939 Chelan showing a yellow work cabin, hanging lines, boom structure, and wooded mountain background. — A yellow cabin and suspended lines appear beside the wooded slope.

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