Clear Lake California-1939: Three Women Roasting Marshmallows At Campfire

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationClear Lake, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Three Women Roasting Marshmallows At Campfire — Clip Details

CLEAR LAKE CALIFORNIA-1939: Three women in period attire gather around a campfire in a wooded clearing, roasting marshmallows on sticks. The black-and-white 8mm footage captures their casual interaction under dappled sunlight filtering through the trees, with a vintage automobile visible in the background. The scene exudes a nostalgic, relaxed atmosphere of a summer outing, showcasing classic 1930s family recreation in a natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761318

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
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: Clear Lake, California, 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: Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing women’s outdoor recreation, camping, or casual summer leisure footage for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The women’s clothing, black-and-white 8mm look, and parked automobile visible through trees support a late-1930s family outing setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment as the women gather close to the fire, lean in with roasting sticks, and glance toward the camera between actions.
What appears in frame: Three women, roasting sticks, a small campfire, wooded shade, rocks, grass, and a parked vintage car are visible across the frames.
Film character: The footage has a soft black-and-white 8mm texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, contact-sheet edge shadows, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for camping, women’s leisure, road trips, or Depression-era family recreation.
Historical context: The scene shows informal outdoor cooking and social recreation at Clear Lake, with women in casual period attire gathered in a wooded camp setting.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from personality or property permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Clear Lake home movie, 1930s women camping, marshmallow roasting, vintage California outing, and black-and-white 8mm recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Clear Lake scenes, then with 1939 California outdoor footage, then with broader 1930s camping and family leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Clear Lake in 1939, three women gather by a small campfire with roasting sticks and a parked car visible through the trees. — Three women gather around a campfire in a shaded wooded area.

Three women in period clothing tend roasting sticks over a small campfire at a wooded Clear Lake outing in 1939. — The women lean toward the fire with sticks extended over the flames.

A woman crouches near the campfire while two others stand or sit close by during a 1939 Clear Lake outdoor gathering. — One woman crouches near the fire while the others remain close beside her.

The women continue roasting over the fire in a wooded Clear Lake camp scene, with rocks and a vintage car in the background. — The group stays clustered around the fire in the shaded clearing.

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