Clear Lake California-1939: Women In The Middle Of The External Area Of

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

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Women In The Middle Of The External Area Of — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a floral dress and wide-brimmed hat standing among trees near a lakeside property in Clear Lake, California. She is joined by another woman in casual attire, both posing naturally in a wooded yard with a house visible in the background. The grainy black-and-white footage, with soft focus and natural lighting, evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment from a mid-century American summer. The scene suggests a relaxed family outing or holiday memory, with the women smiling gently at the camera.

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: 124761761

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

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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: 1930s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet lakeside-family or summer-residence moment in rural California.
Period detail: The women's dresses, cardigan, wide-brimmed hat, and soft black-and-white 8mm look may show late-1930s casual vacation clothing and yard life.
Home-movie behavior: The women stand and smile toward the camera in an informal pose, giving the clip the value of an unstaged family visit rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult women, mature trees, lakeside water, a small house or cabin, grass, shrubs, and a shaded yard.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame-edge darkness, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, family-outing insert, lakeside-residence cutaway, or transition into a 1930s domestic travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents adult women in a wooded outdoor residential setting near Clear Lake, reflecting ordinary leisure and visiting behavior in home-movie form.
Research note: Faces are visible and a residence-like exterior appears in the background, so likeness and property review may still be needed in addition to copyright checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm Clear Lake California women outdoors, 1930s home movie lakeside yard, and vintage women posing near trees.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clear Lake 1939 exteriors, then broader 1930s home-movie scenes of women, yards, and lake holidays.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Clear Lake, California in 1939, two adult women pose in a wooded lakeside yard, with water visible through the trees. — Two women pose among trees near the lake, one partly cropped at the right edge.

A 1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame shows two women in a wooded lakeside yard, with one woman smiling at the camera. — The women remain posed near the trees with lake water visible in the background.

At Clear Lake in 1939, a woman stands in a shaded yard holding a round object, with a small house or cabin in the background. — A woman stands in the yard beside trees, with a small house visible behind her.

A 1939 Clear Lake frame shows a woman facing the camera in a wooded yard, with a house or cabin visible behind the trees. — The woman stands among the trees as the camera frames the yard and house beyond.

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