Clear Lake California-1939: Boats and People on Clear Lake Shore

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

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Boats and People on Clear Lake Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene boat journey across Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage shows calm waters with gentle ripples, framed by a dark tree-lined shore. Small white boathouses or docks are visible along the lake's edge, offering picturesque side views. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere. This archival clip presents a peaceful, leisurely lakeside experience from the late 1930s.

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: 124761681

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California lake travel footage suited for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, or quiet recreational travel cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s lakeside recreation through small shore structures, simple docks, wooded banks, and open-water views from a moving boat.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot boat perspective, observing the shoreline without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a wooded shoreline, small white boathouses, docks, a narrow pier, and soft distant tree detail.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld movement consistent with home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm travelogue cutaway, shoreline transition, establishing insert, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents leisure boating and lakeside property from a home-movie perspective without identifying people, events, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible shoreline structures may require separate property and copyright review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Clear Lake boat ride, black-and-white 8mm lake travelogue, California shoreline home movie, and vintage lakeside docks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake footage, then broader 1930s California boating and lakeside recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Clear Lake, California, 1939 home-movie frame showing rippled water, trees, and small white shore structures from a boat. — A moving boat view looks across rippled water toward wooded shoreline and small boathouses.

1939 Clear Lake shoreline view with rippled water, dense trees, a small boathouse, and a dock seen from a moving boat. — The shoreline passes by with a small boathouse and dock set against dense trees.

Clear Lake, California, 1939 frame centered on a white boathouse along a wooded shore, filmed from across the water. — A white boathouse stands near the shoreline as the boat continues along the lake.

1939 Clear Lake boat-view frame showing rippled water, dense trees, a dock, and small shore structures partly obscured by the film edge. — The final view drifts past a darker wooded bank with docks and small shoreline structures.

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