Angora Lakes California-1938: Women Gathering Near Lower Angora Lake Sign

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationAngora Lakes, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Angora Lakes California

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Women Gathering Near Lower Angora Lake Sign — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1938 captures a family outing at Angora Lakes, California. The clip opens with a close-up of a U.S. Forest Service sign marking Lower Angora Lake at 7500 feet elevation. The scene transitions to a sun-drenched outdoor setting where three women gather near a classic car in a wooded area. One woman stands with hands on her hips, while two others sit on the ground, engaged in conversation. The footage exhibits the characteristic purple color cast and grain of 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American family vacation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 127260200

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: Yes
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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 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: Angora Lakes, 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 California lake recreation, U.S. Forest Service signage, women travelers, or a brief family outing insert.
Period detail: The car shape, clothing, and 8mm color footage support a late-1930s vacation scene, with a sign identifying Lower Angora Lake at 7500 feet.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has unstaged home-movie value as women pause near a parked car and talk casually in a wooded lakeside setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Lower Angora Lake sign, U.S. Forest Service shield, wooded terrain, a parked car, three women, sunlit grass, and deep film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows strong purple color shift, soft focus, handheld framing, uneven exposure, grain, and visible contact-sheet borders that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel-memory beat, location-establishing insert, roadside sign cutaway, or transition into a mountain lake vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents recreational travel at Angora Lakes through a family lens, showing women gathered outdoors rather than a formal public event.
Research note: People and a U.S. Forest Service sign are visible, so likeness and identifier review may be needed separate from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1938 8mm Angora Lakes California home movie, Lower Angora Lake sign, women camping trip, or prewar California vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1938 Angora Lakes material, then broader 1930s California travel, camping, and family vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of a Lower Angora Lake sign with elevation 7500 feet, framed by dark 8mm film edges and a purple color cast. — Lower Angora Lake elevation sign appears at the start of the clip.

At Angora Lakes, three women appear near a parked vintage car in a sunlit wooded area, with one standing and two seated. — Women pause near a car during an outdoor lake outing.

Three women remain near the side of a parked car at Angora Lakes, seen in soft, purple-tinted 8mm home-movie footage. — The group continues talking beside the car in a wooded setting.

Late shot of three women gathered by a vintage car in the Angora Lakes wooded area, with heavy film borders and soft exposure. — A final view holds on the women and parked car at the lakeside outing.

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