Clear Lake California-1939: Two People in Boat at Clear Lake

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

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Two People in Boat at Clear Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two adults sitting on a boat at Clear Lake, California. The black and white footage shows a man in a light-colored hat and a woman with short, styled hair, both gazing out over the water. A bird flies across the frame in one shot, adding movement to the serene scene. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic, personal moment 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: 124761618

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 boating moment at Clear Lake, California, for documentary, museum, education, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: The light hat, short styled hair, small boat setting, and black-and-white 8mm texture may show late-1930s leisure travel and lakeside recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The adults appear relaxed and unstaged, turning toward the water and camera in a casual private boating moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, a light brimmed hat, short styled hair, lake water, distant shoreline, boat edge, fishing line, and dark film frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, exposure shifts, dirt specks, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, reflective cutaway, lake-travel transition, or personal memory beat within a 1930s sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents recreational boating at Clear Lake without confirming identities, relationships, vessel type, or any specific event beyond the supplied 1939 home-movie context.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright; no logos, brands, minors, private property, or audible music are evident.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Clear Lake California home movie, 1930s boating footage, black-and-white 8mm lake scene, and adults in boat archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Clear Lake material, then with 1930s boating, lakeside leisure, and travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing two adults seated in a boat, water and distant shoreline behind them. — Two adults sit close together in a boat on Clear Lake, with the distant shore across the water.

Two adults in a small boat face the lake at Clear Lake, California, in a black-and-white 1939 home-movie frame. — The seated pair turn away from the camera while the lake and shoreline fill the background.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Clear Lake showing a hat-wearing man and a woman seated in a boat near open water. — The man glances toward the camera as the woman sits beside him in the boat.

Underexposed Clear Lake home-movie frame with a person close to the camera and the lakeshore visible in the background. — A person is partly silhouetted near the camera while the lake and shoreline remain visible behind them.

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