Clear Lake California-1939: Black-And-White Footage Of Small Body Of Water With Dock And Sailboat

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

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Black-And-White Footage Of Small Body Of Water With Dock... — Clip Details

Black-and-white 8mm home movie footage from 1939 captures a serene lakeside scene at Clear Lake, California. The clip opens on a small wooden dock with a covered pavilion extending over calm water, surrounded by dense trees. The camera slowly pans across the tranquil surface, reflecting the shoreline and foliage. In the final frames, a small sailboat is visible on the water, adding a sense of quiet activity to the peaceful, nostalgic landscape. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of vintage 8mm film, evoking a strong sense of mid-20th century Americana.

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: 124761669

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 home-movie requests needing quiet lakeside scenery, dock details, and a small sailboat as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view may show a late-1930s leisure shoreline with a simple wooden dock, covered lakeside structure, and small sailboat.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, observing the water, shoreline, and boat with the calm pacing of a personal travel reel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, tree-lined shore, a small covered dock, posts, reflections, a narrow pier, and a moored sailboat.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a serene insert, location-establishing cutaway, transition, or reflective memory beat within a lake or California sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests recreational lakeside use at Clear Lake without showing people, signage, or identifiable public events in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Clear Lake California 8mm footage, black-and-white lake dock home movie, vintage sailboat cutaway, and 1930s shoreline scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader vintage California lake, dock, and boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake, California home-movie frame showing a covered wooden dock, shoreline trees, posts, and reflections on still water. — A small covered dock stands along the tree-lined lakeshore, reflected in calm water.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Clear Lake showing the covered dock shifted farther right, with trees and still water around it. — The camera holds on the dock and shoreline trees as the water reflects the simple lakeside structure.

Vintage Clear Lake frame showing a small covered dock, pier posts, dense trees, and rippled reflections in black-and-white 8mm. — The lakeside dock remains centered, with posts and tree reflections visible across the water.

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a small sailboat on calm water near a wooded shore and a floating marker. — A small sailboat sits near the wooded shoreline, its mast and hull reflected in the water.

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