Lake Tahoe Nevada USA-1973: Small Island In Forested Lake With Mountain View

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

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Small Island In Forested Lake With Mountain View — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a serene view of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The clip features a small, tree-covered island in the deep blue water, surrounded by a dense evergreen forest on the shoreline. Distant mountains rise under a hazy sky, with the camera panning slowly across the tranquil landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, characteristic of amateur 1970s home movies. This archival footage evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical presentations about American nature and leisure.

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: 120962037

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: Archival 1970s 8mm landscape footage suited to documentary or editorial requests for Lake Tahoe scenery, western U.S. travel, or quiet nature cutaways.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the 8mm home-movie color, grain, soft focus, and metadata-supported 1973 date rather than from identifiable buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor-shot view of a lake landscape, with the camera observing the island, forested shoreline, and distant mountains from an elevated scenic vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, a small tree-covered island, evergreen forest along the opposite shore, hazy mountain ridges, sky, shoreline rocks, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, mild color fading, slight vignetting, and a handheld or amateur pan feel consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, quiet transition, geographic establishing shot, or memory beat within a travel, environmental, family-history, or western landscape sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects recreational home-movie attention to Lake Tahoe’s natural scenery in the early 1970s without showing identifiable people, facilities, events, or commercial activity.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright status, location permissions, and any broader production clearance needs separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches may include 1973 8mm Lake Tahoe scenery, Nevada lake island home movie, 1970s mountain lake footage, forested shoreline cutaway, and vintage Tahoe travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Lake Tahoe or Nevada footage from 1973, and then with broader 1970s U.S. nature, lakeside travel, and mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, showing a small wooded island in deep blue water with evergreen forest and hazy mountain ridges in the background. — Small wooded island on Lake Tahoe with mountains beyond.

1973 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame with the camera panned right, keeping the forested shoreline and distant mountain ridge in view while the island slips toward the left edge. — Forested Tahoe shoreline during a slow pan.

1973 8mm frame from Lake Tahoe, Nevada, showing open blue water in the foreground and a wooded shoreline with hazy hills or mountains behind it. — Open lake water and wooded shoreline.

1973 Lake Tahoe 8mm home-movie frame showing calm blue water, a continuous evergreen shoreline, and a hazy mountain ridge under a pale sky. — Evergreen shoreline across calm Lake Tahoe water.

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