Washington-1939: Black And White Footage Of Landscape Mountains Lake And Cloudy

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

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Black And White Footage Of Landscape Mountains Lake And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene black and white landscape from Washington. The footage shows a calm lake with a dark silhouette near the shore, rolling hills, and a cloudy sky. The view appears to be from a moving vehicle, with a passing power line and distant structures visible. The grainy texture and film scratches enhance its authentic archival quality, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127736482

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: 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 Washington home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary inserts about travel, rural scenery, lakeside roads, and prewar Pacific Northwest views.
Period detail: The footage may show a roadside or rail-side view with utility poles, distant structures, open hills, and a lake, consistent with a late-1930s travel-film perspective.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler’s view, filmed in motion as scenery passes across the frame rather than composed as a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, rolling hills or low mountains, cloudy sky, utility poles and wires, shoreline structures, dark roadside silhouettes, and film-frame edges.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, vertical scratches, and motion blur give the clip a physical home-movie texture from the original film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or memory beat between more specific Washington or 1930s material.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday travel through a sparsely developed lakeside landscape, with utilities and distant buildings marking a settled but open environment.
Research note: No people, logos, or identifiable brands are visible, but copyright status, location specificity, and any property considerations should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1939 Washington 8mm landscape, black-and-white lake and mountains, home movie roadside scenery, or Pacific Northwest travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Washington travel views, and then with broader 1930s lakes, mountains, roads, and utility-line landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing a lake, distant hills, shoreline structures, and dark foreground shapes from a moving viewpoint. — A grainy lakeside landscape appears beyond dark foreground framing and distant shoreline structures.

Black-and-white Washington travel frame with low hills, cloudy sky, and a blurred foreground suggesting the camera is moving. — Low hills and cloud cover pass behind a soft, blurred foreground landscape.

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing a lake, dark hillside, cloudy sky, and passing utility lines from a moving vehicle viewpoint. — Utility lines cross a lake-and-hills view, reinforcing the footage’s moving roadside perspective.

Black-and-white 1939 Washington frame with a utility pole, wires, lakeshore structures, water, hills, and cloudy sky. — A utility pole and wires pass in front of distant shoreline buildings and hills across the water.

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