Clear Lake California-1939: Tourists Exploring Historic Stone Ruin

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

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Tourists Exploring Historic Stone Ruin — Clip Details

CLEAR LAKE CALIFORNIA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a group of tourists exploring a historic stone ruin. Two men in light-colored shirts and trousers stand near a stone wall, while women in period dresses walk toward them through a wooded area. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural daylight filtering through trees, with a staircase visible in the background. The grainy, black-and-white quality and film edge artifacts evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering authentic 1930s Americana footage for documentaries, historical 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761392

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for late-1930s California home-movie footage of tourists visiting a wooded stone ruin or historic site for documentary, museum, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm black-and-white stock, and visitor behavior may show a 1939 leisure outing, with men in light trousers and women in dresses near rustic stonework.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor perspective, watching companions gather, pose, and walk through the ruin rather than performing for a formal camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include stone walls, outdoor steps, trees, men in light shirts and trousers, women in dresses or slacks, a grassy foreground, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld instability in natural daylight.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for travel, California recreation, historic-site visits, or Depression-era leisure context.
Historical context: The scene suggests middle-class sightseeing or group travel at a stone ruin in Clear Lake, California, without enough visible evidence to identify the specific site.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status should be assessed separately from location or likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Clear Lake California tourists, 1930s 8mm home movie stone ruins, women walking toward men at historic site, and vintage California travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Clear Lake material, and then with broader 1930s California tourism or historic-site footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Clear Lake, California footage, two men in light clothing stand by stonework as another person sits in the foreground near trees and steps. — Two men stand beside a low stone wall in a wooded ruin while another visitor sits nearby.

A 1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame shows men near a rustic stone wall, with a seated visitor in front and shaded steps behind them. — Visitors gather near stonework and shaded steps at the wooded site.

Women walk across the foreground toward men at a stone ruin in 1939 Clear Lake, California home-movie footage. — Women approach men standing by the stone wall at the outdoor ruin.

Two women, seen from behind, walk toward men beside a low stone wall and steps in 1939 Clear Lake, California footage. — Two women walk toward companions near the stone wall and shaded steps.

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