Clear Lake California-1939: White House With White Shed On A Sunny Day

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

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White House With White Shed On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a white house and adjacent shed nestled among leafy trees in Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage shows a quiet residential scene on a sunny day, with natural light filtering through the branches. The camera pans slowly, revealing the house's porch and surrounding yard, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American suburban atmosphere. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of amateur Super 8 home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761789

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s American home-movie requests needing a quiet residential exterior cutaway from Clear Lake, California.
Period detail: The modest porch, clapboard siding, shaded yard, and outbuilding may show small-town or lakeside domestic architecture of the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor or family-camera perspective, lingering on the house and yard rather than following an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house, porch windows, steps, mature trees, leafy shade, a small shed or outbuilding, and yard groundcover.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture appears with soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, and uneven handheld framing across the pan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a residential establishing insert, memory transition, or quiet cutaway in a family-history sequence.
Historical context: The view documents an ordinary domestic exterior and shaded yard in Clear Lake without showing identifiable people or public activity.
Research note: No faces or logos are visible, but the residential exterior should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and location-use considerations.
Research search match: Searches for 1939 8mm Clear Lake California house exterior, vintage home movie porch and shed, or 1930s residential yard footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Clear Lake 1939 material, then with 1930s residential exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a white house and small shed behind large trees in a shaded yard. — White house and nearby shed seen through trees in the yard.

1939 Clear Lake frame with the side of a white house, porch windows, front steps, and mature trees. — Porch windows and steps are visible through the trees.

Clear Lake 1939 home-movie still showing a white porch facade, dark doorway, trees, and sunlit yard patches. — The camera frames the porch facade and doorway under tree shade.

Late frame from the 1939 Clear Lake pan, with the white porch, trees, and yard softened by motion blur. — The pan ends on a softened view of porch, trees, and yard.

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