Clear Lake California-1939: High Water Covers Docks And Shelters Near A Tree

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

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High Water Covers Docks And Shelters Near A Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a flooded shoreline at Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage shows high water submerging docks and shelters along a tree-lined bank. A small covered structure stands partially underwater, its reflection rippling in the calm, overgrown lake. The scene conveys a quiet, melancholic mood of nature reclaiming a human space, with dense foliage and a grainy, nostalgic film texture characteristic of the era. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse into a past environmental event, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124761661

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: 1930s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet Clear Lake flood shoreline cutaway or environmental history insert.
Period detail: The scene may show period lakeside shelters, simple docks, and undeveloped tree-lined shoreline consistent with the 1939 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from across the water, giving an unstaged family-film record of high water covering small shoreline structures.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm floodwater, submerged dock posts, covered shoreline shelters, dense trees, grassy bank, reflections, and dark film edges.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, mild vignetting, and steady home-movie framing across the flooded lakeshore.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for flooding, lake history, rural California, or changing shoreline conditions.
Historical context: The footage visually records high water along a developed lakeside edge without identifying a named flood event or specific property.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Clear Lake California flood footage, 8mm flooded dock home movie, and vintage lake shoreline high water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Clear Lake or 1939 California material, then broader flood and shoreline change footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing high water around a covered shoreline shelter, dock posts, trees, and water reflections. — High water surrounds a small covered dock structure along the tree-lined shore.

Clear Lake shoreline view with calm high water, trees, submerged dock elements, and a covered structure partly visible at the frame edge. — Floodwater laps across a wooded lakeshore with a covered dock cropped at right.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of the Clear Lake bank, with high water below trees and shoreline structures obscured by dense foliage. — Trees and shoreline structures stand close to the high waterline.

1939 Clear Lake flood scene with a small covered shelter, submerged dock posts, calm reflective water, and a wooded bank. — A small covered shelter and dock posts remain partly surrounded by high water.

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