Clear Lake California-1939: A Couple Stands By The Lake

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

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A Couple Stands By The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a couple at Clear Lake, California. A man in a light-colored fedora and patterned shirt stands beside a woman in glasses, both gazing toward the water. The black-and-white footage shows gentle ripples on the lake, a tree-lined shore, and distant houses under a bright sky. The grainy texture and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day 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: 124761636

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

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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 California home-movie requests needing a brief lakeside couple shot, vacation memory beat, or documentary cutaway of leisure by the water.
Period detail: The light fedora, patterned shirt, sunglasses, black-and-white 8mm look, and lakeshore setting support a late-1930s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears casually posed and partly turning toward the camera, giving the clip the feel of an unstaged family or travel moment by the lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, a light fedora, dark glasses, patterned clothing, rippled lake water, wooded shoreline, distant houses, and bright sky.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, edge vignetting, and slight handheld framing that reinforce its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or personal memory beat within a sequence about California leisure, lake visits, or family travel.
Historical context: The clip shows adults at Clear Lake in a relaxed outdoor setting, offering social context for private recreational travel without implying a specific event.
Research note: People are visibly identifiable, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from privacy or publicity concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Clear Lake California home movie, 1930s couple by lake, vintage 8mm lakeside vacation, and black-and-white family travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake footage, then broader 1930s lake recreation or couple vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Clear Lake, California, in 1939, a man in a light fedora and patterned shirt stands beside a woman in glasses near rippled water. — A couple stands near the camera with Clear Lake and a wooded shore in the background.

The 1939 Clear Lake footage shows a man in a fedora near the water, with shoreline buildings and a partial face at frame edge. — A man in a light hat stands by the lakeshore as the camera catches a partial companion at the edge.

The couple turns in profile beside the lake, framed against water and a low wooded shoreline.

The closing frame keeps the Clear Lake shoreline prominent while the couple is partly cropped at the right edge of the 8mm frame. — The camera drifts as the couple moves partly out of view, leaving the lake and shoreline across the frame.

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