Clear Lake California-1939: A View From Behind Trees Latching People Swim

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

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A View From Behind Trees Latching People Swim — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Clear Lake, California, framed through the silhouettes of leafy trees. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a calm lake with a wooden pier extending into the water. In the final frames, people appear near the shoreline, one possibly preparing to swim. The image is viewed through a screen door mesh, adding a layer of texture and a sense of being an observer from inside a cabin. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and quiet summer memories.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761511

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 8mm home-movie lake footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a quiet California shoreline view with swimmers nearby.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s leisure at Clear Lake, with era clues limited to black-and-white 8mm texture, simple swimwear silhouettes, and a wooden pier.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, watching from behind trees or a screened opening as people move casually near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy tree silhouettes, a calm lake surface, a narrow wooden pier, shoreline grasses, screen-door mesh texture, and two people near the water.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, high-contrast exposure, soft focus, slight vignetting, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a summer-memory insert, lakeside transition, quiet cutaway, or establishing fragment before a family recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents informal lakeside recreation from a private-camera viewpoint, with no visible signage or landmarks beyond the Clear Lake location metadata.
Research note: People are visible only as silhouettes, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, privacy, and location rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s 8mm California lake home movie, Clear Lake shoreline pier, vintage swimmers by trees, and screen-door lake view footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader home-movie footage of lakes, piers, swimming, and summer recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame with leafy trees in silhouette, a calm lake, and a narrow wooden pier viewed through mesh texture. — Trees and screen texture partially obscure a quiet lake and pier.

Clear Lake, California appears beyond dark branches and trunks, with a small pier crossing the lower part of the frame. — A bright lake view is framed by dark trees and a low pier.

A screened 8mm view of Clear Lake shows a large tree trunk, soft branches, and a diagonal wooden pier near the shoreline. — A tree trunk and branches dominate the screened lake view.

Two people appear as dark silhouettes near the Clear Lake shore, framed by trees with a wooden pier and bright water behind them. — Two lakeshore figures appear in silhouette among trees near the pier.

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