Lake Tahoe Nevada USA-1973: Deep Blue Picturesque Lake With Small Wooded Island

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationLake Tahoe, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Lake Tahoe Nevada

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Deep Blue Picturesque Lake With Small Wooded Island — Clip Details

Vintage 1973 home movie footage of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, captured on 8mm film. The clip opens with a wide view of the deep blue lake, framed by a dark border, with a densely forested shoreline and distant mountains under a hazy sky. A small, tree-covered island emerges in the center of the frame as the camera slowly pans right, revealing more of the island's rocky base and scattered pine trees. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of a classic American lakeside vacation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120962020

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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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, Nevada, 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: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage of Lake Tahoe, Nevada that can support documentary or educational requests for quiet American lakeside scenery, mountain water, and travel-vacation establishing material.
Period detail: The visible era clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie format, soft exposure, film grain, and faded blue-green palette rather than clothing, vehicles, signage, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot scenic pause, with the camera lingering and panning slowly across the lake and island as a vacation observer might record a memorable view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, a small wooded island or rocky outcropping, forested shoreline, distant hills or mountains, hazy sky, foreground tree tops, and the dark 8mm frame border.
Film character: The footage has a scanned 8mm character with soft focus, visible grain, muted color fading, mild gate-edge darkness, and slight handheld or pan-related blur.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, nature cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about Lake Tahoe, American road travel, or lakeside recreation.
Historical context: As home-movie scenery from 1973, the clip reflects recreational attention to Lake Tahoe's natural landscape without showing people, built tourism infrastructure, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property considerations separately before publication.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches might include 1970s 8mm Lake Tahoe Nevada home movie, vintage mountain lake island footage, deep blue lake with pine shoreline, and Super 8 style scenic vacation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1973 Lake Tahoe or Nevada shoreline footage, and then with broader vintage lake, mountain, island, and American vacation scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view of Lake Tahoe, Nevada with deep blue water, a small tree-covered island, forested shoreline, hazy mountains, and dark frame borders. — Small wooded island on Lake Tahoe beneath distant mountains.

1973 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a small wooded island on blue water, forested shoreline, distant mountain ridges, and a prominent dark 8mm frame edge. — Island and shoreline framed by the 8mm gate edge.

1973 8mm Lake Tahoe frame with the wooded island more centered against blue water, a dense pine shoreline, distant mountains, and faded home-movie color. — Wooded island centered in the lake view.

Late-frame 1973 Lake Tahoe view showing the small wooded island on deep blue water, forested shoreline and hills beyond, with soft grain and a dark 8mm border. — Final pan view across island, water, and wooded shoreline.

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