Clear Lake California-1939: People Helping Woman into Boat at Dock

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

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People Helping Woman into Boat at Dock — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a family at Clear Lake, California. A woman in a wide-brimmed hat and patterned dress helps another person into a small boat at a wooden dock, while others watch from the water's edge. The grainy black-and-white footage shows classic 1930s clothing and a relaxed lakeside atmosphere, with gentle waves and a distant shoreline. The scene evokes nostalgia for mid-century American leisure and family outings.

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: 124761732

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 lakeside leisure, family travel, boating, or home-movie inserts in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The wide-brim hats, patterned dress, small open boat, and simple wooden dock may show late-1930s recreational clothing and lake outing habits.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as people casually help one another around a dock and boat while others sit or watch nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake surface, distant shoreline, small boat, wooden dock posts, seated adults, wide-brim hats, and patterned summer clothing.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows visible grain, soft focus, edge shadows, and slight handheld framing consistent with amateur home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, transition, or establishing insert for family recreation and boating at a lake.
Historical context: The scene reflects an informal American leisure outing at Clear Lake, with adults gathered at a dock and boat rather than a staged public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depiction rights.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1939 8mm Clear Lake California boating, 1930s family dock home movie, vintage lake outing, and woman helped into boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clear Lake 1939 footage, then broader 1930s California boating or family vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Clear Lake home-movie frame from 1939 showing three adults in hats near the water, with the distant shoreline behind them. — Three hat-wearing adults are partly framed against the lake and distant shore.

At Clear Lake in 1939, a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and patterned skirt appears to help another person into a small boat by the dock. — A woman leans over a small boat at the dock while helping another person aboard.

Clear Lake dock scene from 1939 with two adults seated by the water and a woman in a hat standing near the dock edge. — Two people sit on the dock as a woman stands near them by the lake.

A 1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame shows adults gathered on a wooden dock, with one person seated at the right and others near the water. — Adults gather on the dock beside the lake, with posts and open water in view.

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