Washington-1939: Passing View Of Small House And Mountain On A Clear Day

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

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Passing View Of Small House And Mountain On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a passing view from a moving vehicle through a rugged mountain landscape in Washington. The black-and-white footage shows a small house and utility poles along a remote road, with steep rocky cliffs rising in the background under a clear sky. The camera moves steadily, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century rural life and transportation. The grainy texture and film scratches enhance its authentic archival quality, making it ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127736494

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Washington mountain-road footage suited for documentary inserts about rural travel, roadside landscapes, or home-movie views from a moving car.
Period detail: The clip may show a modest roadside house, utility poles, unpaved or lightly surfaced road edges, and sparse rural mountain infrastructure consistent with the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged passenger-window viewpoint, recording the landscape as it passes rather than presenting a planned scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep rocky slopes, a small house, utility poles, a winding road, open sky, roadside fencing, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm grain, gate edges, dust, scratches, and slight blur from vehicle motion give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-transition shot, rural cutaway, or memory beat between longer Washington or mountain sequences.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for remote mountain travel and small-scale roadside settlement without identifying a specific town, road, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible house and land should be treated with ordinary property and copyright review caution.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Washington 8mm mountain road, rural roadside house home movie, black-and-white travel view, and passing car landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Washington travel footage, then with rural mountain roads and roadside-house cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Washington home-movie frame showing a small house near utility poles at the base of steep rocky mountains. — A small house and utility poles appear beside a remote mountain road.

Black-and-white Washington road view from a moving vehicle, with steep slopes and utility poles along the roadside. — The road curves through a rocky mountain landscape.

A passing 8mm view of a steep rocky Washington mountainside, framed by dark gate edges and motion blur. — The camera passes close to a steep, striated mountainside.

Late-frame Washington road view with a pale rocky hillside, roadside edge, and blurred 8mm home-movie texture. — A road and hillside slide past in the final passing view.

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