Clear Lake California-1939: Woman Rows Boat on Lake

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

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Woman Rows Boat on Lake — Clip Details

A young woman in a sailor-style sweater and cap rows a small boat on a calm lake in this 8mm home movie from 1939. Shot in black and white, the footage captures her smiling as she paddles, with gentle water ripples surrounding the boat. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of vintage Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, leisurely summer day. The scene suggests a personal, candid moment of recreation on Clear Lake, California, with the woman appearing joyful and at ease.

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: 124761703

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California lake recreation footage suited to documentary inserts about leisure, home movies, boating, or summer travel.
Period detail: The sailor-style sweater, cap, wooden rowboat, and black-and-white 8mm look may show late-1930s recreational dress and amateur filming style.
Home-movie behavior: The woman smiles toward someone off camera while rowing, giving the clip an unstaged personal vacation or family outing quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young woman, sailor-style top, cap, oars, small rowboat, calm lake water, and a distant dock or shoreline structure.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight contact-print framing that preserve the texture of original 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for lake recreation, 1930s leisure, or personal travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor recreation at Clear Lake, California, without visible commercial signs, formal event markers, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so users should consider likeness review separately from copyright and confirm any project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Clear Lake home movie, woman rowing boat, 1930s lake recreation, 8mm boating footage, and vintage California leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake material, then broader 1930s boating, lake, and vacation home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Clear Lake footage, a woman in a sailor-style top rows a small boat across calm water. — A woman rows a small boat on the lake, partly cropped by the contact-sheet frame.

A woman in sailor-style clothing smiles in a rowboat on Clear Lake, California, in 1939 home-movie footage. — The rower smiles and looks to the side while holding the oar over the lake.

The woman continues rowing on Clear Lake, smiling as the small boat sits low in calm water. — The home-movie camera catches the rower smiling during a relaxed lake outing.

A woman sits in a small rowboat on Clear Lake, with rippled water and a distant dock visible behind her. — The rower faces the camera as the lake and a distant dock appear in the background.

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