Clear Lake California-1939: Husband And Wife Fishing On A Bench By The Lake

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

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Husband And Wife Fishing On A Bench By The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a couple enjoying a peaceful day fishing at Clear Lake, California. A man in a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored shirt sits on a wooden bench with his wife, both smiling as they cast their fishing rods into the calm water. The black-and-white footage shows natural film grain and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, relaxed 1930s family vacation. The couple’s casual attire and joyful expressions reflect a moment of simple recreation by the lake.

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: 124761604

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational sequences about family recreation, lakeside vacations, fishing, or everyday leisure in California.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hat, simple light clothing, wooden bench, and black-and-white 8mm texture support the stated 1939 home-movie context without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears relaxed and aware of the camera, smiling while seated together and fishing from the lakeside bench.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older couple, a wide-brimmed hat, fishing rods, a wooden bench, calm lake water, distant shoreline, open sky, and film gate edges.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft contrast, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it clear physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a sequence about vacation leisure, fishing, marriage, or lakeside life.
Historical context: The footage documents a private recreational moment at Clear Lake, showing fishing as an informal family leisure activity rather than a staged public event.
Research note: Faces are visible and may require likeness review, while no logos, minors, private property, or audible music are evident from the supplied metadata and frames.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s California home movie fishing, Clear Lake vacation footage, husband and wife lakeside bench, and 8mm family recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Clear Lake material, then with broader themes of fishing, couples, vacations, and lake recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame of a couple on a lakeside bench, the man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a fishing rod. — A seated couple fishes from a bench near the water with distant shoreline in the background.

The couple remains seated beside Clear Lake, with the fishing rod angled across the water and the woman turned toward the camera. — The woman looks toward the camera while the fishing rod points out across the lake.

Clear Lake fishing scene with the seated couple closer to frame, the hat brim visible and the fishing line extending toward the water. — The couple sits close together on the bench as one smiles back at the camera.

Final 1939 Clear Lake frame showing the couple smiling on the bench, with the fishing rod crossing the water in the foreground. — Both adults smile toward the camera while seated beside the lake with fishing gear visible.

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