Clear Lake California-1939: Woman in Sailor Outfit Rowing Boat

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

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Woman in Sailor Outfit Rowing Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a sailor-style outfit rowing a small boat on Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage shows her smiling at the camera while paddling, with another boat visible in the distance across the calm water. The grainy texture and soft focus reflect the era's amateur film quality, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century leisure. The scene evokes a sense of quiet adventure and personal memory, with the woman’s confident posture and period clothing adding to the historical charm. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 124761699

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

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 leisure, boating, lake recreation, or home-movie memory sequences needing an identifiable adult subject on water.
Period detail: The sailor-style collar, simple rowboat, and black-and-white 8mm look support the 1939 home-movie date supplied in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: An adult woman rows toward or beside the camera, smiling and adjusting her oar in an informal, posed-but-unrehearsed home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: The frames show a woman in a sailor-style outfit, a small rowboat, oars, calm lake water, an outboard motor, distant shoreline, and another boat far away.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame edges, and contact-print density shifts give the scene a clear physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, leisure cutaway, lake-travel transition, or personal-memory beat within a 1930s recreation sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents private lake recreation and casual boating culture without establishing a public event or specific named activity beyond the supplied Clear Lake location.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright status and any needed permissions should be assessed separately from the absence of logos or property signs.
Research search match: Searches for 1939 8mm Clear Lake California boating, woman rowing boat, sailor outfit home movie, 1930s lake recreation, and black-and-white family footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader 1930s California boating or lakeside leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Wide 1939 Clear Lake view with a small boat far from camera, calm water, soft horizon, and black 8mm frame edges. — A distant boat crosses calm lake water near the low shoreline.

Adult woman in a sailor-style top rows a small boat on Clear Lake, California, smiling toward the camera in 1939 home-movie footage. — A woman in a sailor-style outfit rows while looking toward the camera.

Close 1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame of an adult woman rowing a small boat, with lake water and a motor at the stern. — The rower leans forward with the oar as the boat passes close to camera.

Adult woman in a sailor-style outfit continues rowing on Clear Lake in a soft, grainy 1939 8mm home-movie frame. — A close view shows the woman handling the oar inside the small boat.

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