Clear Lake California-1939: Woman and Man by Lake Shore

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

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Woman and Man by Lake Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet lakeside moment at Clear Lake, California. An elderly woman in a patterned dress smiles gently, then turns to gaze across the water. A young man in light-colored clothing walks along a wooden dock, silhouetted against the calm lake and distant treeline. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by film borders, evokes a nostalgic, intimate family memory from the late 1930s.

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: 124761490

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 quiet lakeside family or vacation cutaway from Clear Lake, California.
Period detail: The clothing, dock setting, black-and-white 8mm look, and 1939 metadata support a late-1930s lakeside home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family moment as an older woman smiles near the camera while a young man moves along the dock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older woman, a younger woman, a young man on a dock, calm lake water, a distant treeline, wooden posts, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, lakeside transition, or cutaway between broader 1930s California family scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows informal leisure by a lake, with family or friends positioned near a dock rather than a staged public event.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review, while no logos, music, or clear private property markings are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Clear Lake California home movie, lakeside family footage, dock scene, and vintage vacation memories.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family footage, then other 1939 Clear Lake scenes, then broader lake vacation or dock leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Older woman in patterned clothing smiles near Clear Lake, California, with calm water, dock structures, and a distant shore visible. — An older woman smiles near the lakeshore as the dock and distant treeline sit behind her.

A dark film-frame divider partly obscures an older woman near Clear Lake while a young man stands on a dock across the water. — The frame catches the woman at the lake edge and a young man standing farther out on the dock.

Young man in light clothing walks along a wooden dock at Clear Lake, framed by calm water and a low distant treeline. — A young man walks along the dock with the broad lake and far shore behind him.

A younger woman and an older woman stand near the Clear Lake shore with dock structures, water, and distant shoreline behind them. — Two women face the camera near the lakeside dock as the water stretches behind them.

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