Clear Lake California-1939: Elderly Woman Smiling at Waterfront

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

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Elderly Woman Smiling at Waterfront — Clip Details

An elderly woman with short, styled hair and glasses smiles warmly at the camera while standing at the edge of Clear Lake, California, in 1939. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures her in a patterned blouse against the calm waters and distant shoreline. The grainy black-and-white footage, with natural film grain and soft focus, evokes a nostalgic, midday atmosphere. The scene is framed by the film’s characteristic borders, offering a quiet, personal moment from a bygone era.

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: 124761444

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 1930s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet personal portrait at a California lakeside setting.
Period detail: The woman's glasses, short styled hair, patterned blouse, and black-and-white 8mm image support the provided 1939 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: An older woman faces the camera and smiles in a relaxed, unstaged family-film moment by the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the woman's face and glasses, patterned blouse, open lake water, distant shoreline, bright sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing give the clip a recognizable 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: This clip can serve as a brief portrait insert, memory beat, or lakeside family-history cutaway within a documentary edit.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest view of personal leisure or family recording at Clear Lake without showing identifiable public events or landmarks.
Research note: A recognizable face is visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to separate copyright or footage-license checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s 8mm home movies, elderly woman smiling at lake, Clear Lake California waterfront, and family film portrait.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Clear Lake footage, then with other waterfront family portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

Older woman in glasses and patterned blouse smiles at the camera by Clear Lake, California, in 1939 home-movie footage. — A smiling older woman stands near the lake as the distant shoreline crosses the background.

The woman remains smiling at the Clear Lake waterfront, framed low against calm water and a far shore. — The woman holds her smile while the lake and low horizon fill most of the frame.

In the 1939 Clear Lake home movie, the smiling woman is partly low in the frame with lake water behind her. — The handheld framing drops slightly as the woman smiles below the lake horizon.

A final frame shows the older woman smiling at the Clear Lake waterfront, with soft 8mm grain and dark frame edges. — The lakeside portrait continues with the woman centered low against open water and sky.

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