Clear Lake California-1939: Women Walking And Smiling In Front Of A Pier

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

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Women Walking And Smiling In Front Of A Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a woman walking along a lakeside pier at Clear Lake, California. She wears a light-colored blouse and dark skirt, her expression shifting from neutral to a shy smile as she moves past the camera. The black-and-white footage shows a calm lake with a wooden dock extending into the water, where other people are seated in the distance. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a quiet day by the water.

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: 124761479

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 home-movie requests needing a brief lakeside leisure moment with women near a pier for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence editing.
Period detail: The clothing, black-and-white 8mm look, wooden dock, and metadata-supported 1939 Clear Lake setting place the scene in late-1930s recreational home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-camera moment as a woman walks past the lens and smiles while another woman sits quietly on the dock.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a calm lake, low shoreline, wooden pier, seated visitors, a walking woman, a seated woman, open sky, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, lakeside cutaway, or intimate memory beat between broader 1930s travel or family-life scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows casual lakeside recreation at Clear Lake, with women and distant visitors using a dock, but it does not identify a specific event or landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness, privacy, and any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Clear Lake California home movies, women by a lakeside pier, vintage dock footage, and 1930s recreational lake scenes.
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 leisure or family-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Clear Lake in 1939, a woman in a light blouse walks near the camera with a wooden pier and calm lake behind her. — A woman passes the camera near a Clear Lake pier, with seated visitors in the distance.

A Clear Lake pier extends across the frame in 1939 home-movie footage, with seated people visible near the water. — The camera holds on the pier and lake as people sit near the end of the dock.

A woman sits on the dock at Clear Lake, with a wooden bench or pier structure and low shoreline behind her. — A seated woman poses or rests on the dock beside a wooden structure at the lakeside.

In the final frame, a woman sits on the Clear Lake dock facing the camera, with calm water and a low shoreline in view. — The seated woman faces the camera from the dock as the lake stretches behind her.

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