Clear Lake California-1939: Scanning Across A Bay With Moored Boats And A Pier

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

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Scanning Across A Bay With Moored Boats And A Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Clear Lake, California, with boats moored along a long pier. The camera slowly scans across the water, revealing a calm bay bordered by distant tree-lined hills under an overcast sky. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by film borders, evokes a nostalgic mid-century Americana mood, showcasing a quiet moment of recreation and leisure at a classic California lake. This archival clip offers authentic 1930s-era footage for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, and period-accurate visual storytelling.

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: 124761430

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 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: 1930s 8mm lakefront footage suited to documentary inserts, regional history segments, or recreation-era cutaways needing quiet California shoreline atmosphere.
Period detail: The small boats, long pier, open shoreline, and monochrome 8mm home-movie texture may show a late-1930s recreational lake setting at Clear Lake, California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged visitor perspective, with the camera slowly scanning across the bay rather than focusing on posed people or formal activity.
What appears in frame: Visible details include calm lake water, moored boats, a long pier or dock, distant tree-lined hills, shoreline structures, film borders, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The footage has grainy black-and-white 8mm texture, soft exposure, visible frame edges, and slight handheld movement that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, transition, shoreline cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1930s travel or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a recreational lakefront environment with boats and shoreline infrastructure, without visible crowds, identifiable people, or commercial signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Clear Lake California 8mm, vintage lake pier footage, 1930s moored boats, and home movie bay panorama.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader 1930s California lake and boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm view of Clear Lake, California, showing moored boats along a pier beneath an overcast sky. — Moored boats and a long pier stretch across the lakefront, with distant hills beyond the water.

Clear Lake shoreline in 1939 home-movie footage, with boats clustered near a pier and hills in the distance. — The camera scan continues across the bay, holding boats and dock structures near the horizon line.

Wide 1939 Clear Lake view with a low pier or railing crossing the frame and small boats near shore. — A low pier line crosses the foreground while boats sit near the far shore of the lake.

End of the 1939 Clear Lake scan showing docked boats, low shoreline structures, and hills across the bay. — The final frame shows boats and shoreline structures at the edge of the bay under a muted sky.

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