Clear Lake California-1939: Woman on Dock Gazes over Water

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

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Woman on Dock Gazes over Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures an elderly woman with glasses sitting on a wooden dock at Clear Lake, California. She wears a patterned dress and gazes out over the calm water, with a distant shoreline visible. The grainy black-and-white footage shows her turning to smile at the camera, offering a quiet, nostalgic moment of reflection. The film’s natural wear, including scratches and dust, adds to its authentic archival quality. This clip evokes a sense of peaceful summer memory and personal history, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & 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: 124761441

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 archival requests needing a quiet lakeside home-movie moment with an older woman at Clear Lake, California, for documentary or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The simple wooden dock, patterned dress, eyeglasses, and black-and-white 8mm look support the 1939 home-movie period detail without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The woman sits calmly by the water and turns toward the camera with a small smile, giving the clip an unstaged family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older woman, eyeglasses, a patterned dress, a wooden dock, calm lake water, a distant shoreline, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, contact-frame edges, and light dust that read as authentic physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective insert, lakeside cutaway, generational memory beat, or transition within a family-history or regional archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows a leisure moment at a lake shore, suggesting family travel or summer recreation while avoiding claims beyond the visible scene and supplied metadata.
Research note: A face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and any location-related permissions should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1939 8mm Clear Lake home movie, older woman on dock, California lakeside family footage, and black-and-white summer shore scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clear Lake 1939 material, then broader 1930s lakeside leisure or family-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing an older woman in glasses seated on a wooden dock near calm water. — Older woman sits on a dock at the shore of Clear Lake.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Clear Lake showing the woman near the shore against a wide water horizon. — The woman is framed low against the lake and distant shore.

1939 home-movie still of an older woman in a patterned dress facing the camera at Clear Lake, California. — The woman faces the camera near the lakeshore.

Clear Lake 1939 8mm frame showing an older woman smiling toward the camera with the shoreline in the distance. — The woman smiles toward the camera by the water.

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