Clear Lake California-1939: A Lady Walking Through The Woods Around A White House

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

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A Lady Walking Through The Woods Around A White House — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a woman in a light-colored dress walking through a wooded area near a white wooden house at Clear Lake, California. The black-and-white footage, shot through trees, shows the house's exterior with a porch and windows, while the woman moves gracefully along a path. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, personal moment from the late 1930s. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for historical, documentary, or nostalgic projects.

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: 124761791

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: 1930s Clear Lake home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational sequences needing a quiet woman-walking exterior near a wooded lakeside house.
Period detail: The light dress, simple wooden house, screened porch, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s domestic vacation or residence setting.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has unstaged home-movie value, with the camera observing the house and a woman walking casually through trees rather than performing for a formal setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white wooden house, screened or windowed porch sections, tree trunks, leafy branches, grass, shadows, and a woman walking on a path.
Film character: The clip carries physical 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld movement.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, exterior cutaway, location insert, or transition into a 1930s Clear Lake family or travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows a domestic wooded setting in Clear Lake, California, offering visual context for leisure, residence, or family travel imagery in the late 1930s.
Research note: A visible adult face and identifiable house exterior warrant likeness and property-context review, while copyright status should be assessed separately from those concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Clear Lake California 8mm home movie, woman walking through woods, white wooden house exterior, and 1930s family travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Clear Lake 1939 material, then 1930s California home-movie scenes of houses, woods, and walking figures.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Clear Lake home-movie frame showing a white wooden house behind tree trunks and leafy branches. — A white house is seen through trees in the wooded Clear Lake setting.

White house exterior and shaded windows appear behind trees in 1939 Clear Lake footage. — Trees partially screen the house exterior and windows.

A closer Clear Lake frame shows the wooden house exterior, porch corner, trees, and shaded lawn. — The camera lingers on the house exterior among the trees.

A woman in a light dress walks through trees near a house in 1939 Clear Lake home-movie footage. — A woman walks along the wooded path near the house.

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