Clear Lake California-1939: People Riding Motorboats On Open Water On A Cloudy Day

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

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People Riding Motorboats On Open Water On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene scene at Clear Lake, California. Two small motorboats glide across the open water on a cloudy day, each carrying several people in period-appropriate attire. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by the classic 8mm film border, shows gentle ripples on the lake's surface and a distant tree-lined shore. The quiet, nostalgic atmosphere evokes mid-20th century leisure and family outings, preserved in authentic archival quality.

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: 124761736

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: Supports requests for late-1930s California lake recreation, small motorboat leisure, or quiet home-movie cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The small open motorboats, distant shoreline, and black-and-white 8mm source may show prewar recreational boating at Clear Lake in 1939.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged shoreline-view perspective, watching people ride across open water without posed interaction with the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, small motorboats with riders, a low tree-lined shore, cloudy sky, 8mm frame edges, and film dust marks.
Film character: The clip carries a subdued 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing around the moving lake view.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm insert, travel-memory beat, lake recreation cutaway, or transition into broader 1930s outdoor leisure material.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary recreational boating on a California lake, emphasizing leisure, water travel, and family-film observation rather than a public event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no brands, music, private property, or readable identifiers are apparent.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Clear Lake home movie, 8mm California boating, vintage lake motorboat footage, and 1930s open water recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake scenes, then other 1939 Clear Lake footage, then broader 1930s boating, vacation, and outdoor recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a small motorboat with people aboard on open water under a cloudy sky. — A small motorboat moves across Clear Lake with a low shoreline in the distance.

Small motorboat carrying people across Clear Lake, California, seen at a distance in black-and-white 8mm footage. — Riders in a small boat pass across the lake surface beneath an overcast sky.

Clear Lake motorboat scene from 1939 home-movie footage, with people visible in the boat and shoreline behind. — A small boat travels near the horizon line as the camera watches from shore or another vessel.

Final frame shows a motorboat with riders on Clear Lake, with soft 8mm grain and a muted cloudy background. — The boat continues across open water, set against a faint shoreline and gray sky.

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