Lake Tahoe California-1939: Woman Wiping Cocker Spaniel With Towel on Porch

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Woman Wiping Cocker Spaniel With Towel on Porch — Clip Details

A woman in a light-colored dress sits on a porch in Lake Tahoe, California, in 1939, gently wiping a golden Cocker Spaniel with a white towel. The dog, wearing a light-colored cloth over its head, sits calmly beside her as she pets and dries it. The scene is captured on vintage 8mm film, showing warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus typical of home movies from the era. A window with a curtain is visible in the background, and the porch railing frames the intimate moment. The footage has a nostalgic, personal quality, evoking mid-20th century domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127014017

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: Lake Tahoe, 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 home-movie requests needing a quiet domestic porch scene with a woman caring for a pet dog in Lake Tahoe, California.
Period detail: The light dress, porch setting, simple window curtain, and soft 8mm color may show late-1930s domestic leisure as supported by the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures an unstaged caregiving moment as the seated woman towels and pets a calm Cocker Spaniel beside her on the porch.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a seated woman, golden dog, white towel, porch bench or railing, curtained window, dark siding, and handheld home-movie framing.
Film character: Warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight framing instability give the short 8mm scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a domestic-life cutaway, pet-care insert, family-memory beat, or gentle transition within a 1930s travel or home-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a personal view of human-animal companionship in a Lake Tahoe home-movie setting without supporting broader claims about the household.
Research note: A visible adult face and residential setting call for likeness and property review, while copyright status should be evaluated separately from depicted rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Lake Tahoe home movie, 1930s woman with dog, 8mm porch pet care, Cocker Spaniel towel scene, and domestic family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Lake Tahoe footage, then with 1930s domestic life, pets, porches, and family leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie footage, a woman sits on a porch and towels a golden Cocker Spaniel beside a curtained window. — A seated woman gently wipes the dog with a towel on the porch.

The woman leans toward the dog on the Lake Tahoe porch while a pale towel rests over the dog's head and shoulders. — The dog sits calmly as the woman adjusts the towel around it.

A woman sits beside the towel-covered Cocker Spaniel on the porch, with dark exterior siding and a curtained window behind them. — The towel covers the dog's head as the woman sits beside it.

The final frame shows the woman turned toward the golden dog as it sits beside her on the Lake Tahoe porch near a curtained window. — The woman and dog face one another in a quiet porch moment.

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