Clear Lake California-1939: Two Men and Woman Talking in Garden

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

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Two Men and Woman Talking in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two men and a woman in a sun-dappled garden at Clear Lake, California. The men wear light-colored shirts and hats, one with a flat cap, the other a fedora, while the woman wears a white sweater with a sailor collar and dark pants. They stand among lush trees and foliage, smiling and conversing in a relaxed, nostalgic moment. The grainy black-and-white footage, with natural light and soft focus, evokes a timeless 1930s Americana feel. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & 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: 124761706

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 home-movie requests needing adults socializing outdoors in a garden setting for documentary, museum, or period-life sequences.
Period detail: Clothing such as brimmed hats, a flat cap, light shirts, high-waisted trousers, and a sailor-collar sweater supports a late-1930s home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The adults appear relaxed and aware of the camera, pausing, smiling, and conversing in the casual manner of family or vacation filming.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two men, one woman, brimmed hats, a sailor-collar sweater, garden foliage, trees, and a house partly seen behind them.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, contact-sheet edge darkness, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, social-life cutaway, or transitional insert between broader Clear Lake or 1930s family scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual evidence of informal adult leisure and outdoor socializing in a California garden setting, without identifying the people shown.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright or footage licensing; no logos are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1939 Clear Lake home movie, 1930s California garden conversation, adults outdoors 8mm footage, and vintage family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1939 Clear Lake footage, then similar 1930s outdoor family or garden social scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Clear Lake home-movie footage, two adults in hats stand among trees and foliage with a house partly visible behind them. — Two adults pause in a shaded garden area, one facing the camera and one turned aside.

A man in a brimmed hat stands opposite a woman in a sailor-collar sweater in the Clear Lake garden setting. — A man and woman face one another in the garden, appearing to converse.

The man in a brimmed hat and the woman in a light sailor-collar sweater stand in the Clear Lake garden, facing the camera area. — The man and woman stand separated by the garden path and surrounding foliage.

A man and woman stand in a leafy Clear Lake yard, with soft-focus 8mm texture and a house partly visible beyond the foliage. — The pair remains in the garden as the camera holds a soft, slightly uneven frame.

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