Clear Lake California-1939: Two Women Walking Along Wooden Pier

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

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Two Women Walking Along Wooden Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two women walking along a wooden pier at Clear Lake, California. Dressed in period-appropriate attire, one wears a light blouse and dark pants, while the other wears a sailor-style top. They stroll slowly across the weathered dock, with calm water and a distant shoreline visible behind them. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by natural film borders, evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment from the late 1930s. The scene is still and contemplative, offering authentic archival footage for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124761468

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: 1930s Clear Lake home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational sequences about leisure travel, lakeside recreation, and everyday women's dress before World War II.
Period detail: The women's wide-leg trousers, light blouses, and sailor-style collar may show late-1930s casual vacation clothing in an informal lakeside setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as two women walk slowly toward the camera on a wooden pier, briefly looking relaxed and aware of the person filming.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two women, a wooden pier, bench or dock furniture, calm lake water, upright posts, distant shoreline, film borders, and soft black-and-white grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows rounded frame edges, mild handheld framing, visible grain, soft focus, and uneven exposure that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, lakeside leisure cutaway, transition into a 1930s travel sequence, or human-scale insert within a Clear Lake reel.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary recreational movement near the water, with women's casual clothing and the pier setting providing social context without identifying the people.
Research note: People's faces are visible, so likeness and identification review may be needed, while no logos, children, audible music, or obvious private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm Clear Lake California pier, women walking on dock, 1930s lakeside home movie, and vintage women by lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Clear Lake footage, and then with broader 1930s lakeside recreation or women-at-leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A woman in trousers walks away along a wooden pier at Clear Lake, California, with still water and distant shoreline behind her. — A woman walks along the pier with lake water and shoreline in the background.

Two women on a Clear Lake wooden pier face the camera, with calm water, dock posts, and a distant shoreline visible behind them. — Two women approach the camera on the wooden pier over Clear Lake.

Two women in casual 1930s clothing walk side by side on a Clear Lake pier, passing dock furniture with open water behind them. — The two women continue along the pier, framed by dock posts and lake water.

Two women walk toward the camera on a wooden pier at Clear Lake, California, with a bench, posts, still water, and shoreline in view. — Two women near the camera on the lakeside pier, with the open water behind them.

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