Clear Lake California-1939: Two Women Standing by Lake Shore

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

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Two Women Standing by Lake Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two women standing by the shore of Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage shows them in period attire—dresses and wide-brimmed hats—amid trees with a calm lake in the background. A young boy in a straw hat sits on a wooden dock in one frame, while a small rowboat with several people glides across the water. The grainy texture and soft focus reflect the authentic look of mid-20th century amateur film, evoking a nostalgic, serene summer day.

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: 124761750

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 lakeside leisure, women posing outdoors, or quiet recreational cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, wide-brimmed hat, high-waisted trousers, and soft black-and-white 8mm rendering support the 1939 home-movie period noted in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-travel feel, with women standing for the camera near the water and one figure walking along a lakeside edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two women, a wide-brimmed hat, trees, lake water, shoreline foliage, a dock or railing, bright sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with scanned amateur 8mm film from the late 1930s.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, location insert, leisure cutaway, or transition into a broader sequence about lakeside travel or family recreation.
Historical context: The scene shows informal outdoor recreation at Clear Lake, with women posing by the shore in attire consistent with the late-1930s date supplied in the metadata.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and possible privacy review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Clear Lake California home movie, women by lake, black-and-white lakeside vacation footage, and 1930s amateur travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clear Lake 1939 material, then broader 1930s lakeside recreation or California travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a woman in a wide-brimmed hat near the shoreline with open water behind her. — A woman in a wide-brimmed hat stands or walks near the lake edge.

Two women stand beside trees at Clear Lake, California, one in light trousers and one in darker trousers, with water behind them. — Two women pose near trees along the lakeshore.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of two women posing near trees at Clear Lake with the lake visible through the background. — The women stand side by side at the lakeside tree line.

Two women face the home-movie camera at the Clear Lake shore, framed by trees and bright water in the background. — Two women face the camera in a shaded lakeside spot.

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