Clear Lake California-1939: Woman and Man Smiling Together by Clear Lake

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

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Woman and Man Smiling Together by Clear Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene day at Clear Lake, California. A woman in a patterned dress and glasses smiles warmly at the camera, her expression radiating joy. A man in a light-colored fedora stands beside her, both enjoying the peaceful lake view. The black-and-white footage shows gentle ripples on the water, a tree-lined shore, and distant boats, evoking a nostalgic, classic American summer memory.

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: 124761632

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: Supports 1930s documentary or editorial requests for informal lakeside leisure, boating, and adult vacation portraits in Northern California home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clothing, fedora-style hat, black-and-white 8mm look, and metadata date place the scene in 1939 Clear Lake, California.
Home-movie behavior: Two adults smile and lean toward the camera from a boat or lakeside vantage, giving the clip an unstaged vacation snapshot quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling woman, a man in a light hat, rippled lake water, wooded shoreline, distant small boats, and edge-framed handheld composition.
Film character: The clip has high-contrast black-and-white 8mm grain, slight softness, gate-edge shadowing, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, lakeside cutaway, transition into a travel sequence, or human-scale insert for 1930s recreation.
Historical context: The footage shows adults enjoying a calm lakeside outing, reflecting everyday leisure rather than a staged public event or identifiable landmark scene.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, children, private interiors, or branded property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Clear Lake home movie, 1930s California lake vacation, 8mm boating footage, and smiling adults by lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader 1930s lake recreation or boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame with a man partly cut off at the edge, rippled water, trees, and distant boats. — A man in a light hat appears at the edge of the frame as the lake and wooded shore fill the view.

Smiling woman in glasses near Clear Lake, California, with rippled water and a wooded shoreline behind her. — A woman smiles toward the camera with the lake and tree-lined shore in the background.

Man in a light fedora and patterned garment near Clear Lake, with another smiling adult partly visible at the frame edge. — A man turns toward the camera while another adult appears partly cropped beside him.

Man in a light hat smiles beside a partly cropped woman, with Clear Lake water and trees behind them. — The man smiles at the edge of the lake view while a woman is partly visible beside him.

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