Clear Lake California-1939: A Man On A Boat Recording What Appears To Be A Boathouse

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

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A Man On A Boat Recording What Appears To Be A Boathouse — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene at Clear Lake, California. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a wooden boathouse with a covered dock extending into calm waters, surrounded by dense trees. A small boat is visible near the shore, and the water reflects the structure and foliage. The camera appears to be moving slowly, possibly from a boat, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century leisure. The footage has a classic, unpolished quality typical of personal 8mm recordings from the era.

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: 124761652

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 California lake recreation, waterfront setting, or home-movie travel cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show a small lakeside boathouse, covered dock, wooden pilings, and simple shoreline construction consistent with the 1939 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels recorded from a moving boat or shoreline vantage, preserving an unstaged look at quiet lake scenery rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a covered boathouse, dock, pilings, calm lake water, shoreline trees, a small boat, reflections, and soft film-edge vignetting.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat for lakeside leisure and travel sequences.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for small-scale waterfront recreation at Clear Lake without showing identifiable people, signage, or public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and property-use questions should still be reviewed by production counsel.
Research search match: Search matches include 1939 Clear Lake California home movie, 8mm lakeside boathouse, vintage boat dock footage, and 1930s lake shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clear Lake 1939 footage, then broader vintage lake, boating, dock, and shoreline scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a covered boathouse, dock pilings, shoreline trees, and water reflections. — Covered lakeside boathouse with dock pilings and reflections on the water.

Clear Lake, California frame with a covered dock structure, small boat near shore, dense trees, and reflected light on the lake. — Small boat near a covered dock structure along a wooded lakeshore.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a covered lakeside dock at Clear Lake, with pilings, trees, and rippled reflections. — Covered dock and shoreline trees reflected in the lake.

1939 home-movie still of a lakeside boathouse or covered dock at Clear Lake, framed by trees and reflective water. — Boathouse or covered dock seen across the water at a wooded lakeshore.

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