Lake Tahoe Nevada USA-1973: Wet Hills Rough Terrain And Trees On The Discovery

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

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Wet Hills Rough Terrain And Trees On The Discovery — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a dramatic canyon landscape with a large body of water nestled between steep, layered rock formations. The terrain is arid and rugged, with visible erosion patterns and sparse vegetation. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, capturing a nostalgic, unfiltered view of the American West. The camera pans slowly across the scene, emphasizing the vastness of the natural environment under an overcast sky.

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: 120962234

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: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing visitor-shot Western canyon, reservoir, or Lake Tahoe-area landscape material for documentary, educational, or atmospheric cutaway use.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color home-movie texture from metadata-supported 1973 footage, with no visible vehicles, people, signage, or built landmarks to independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the observational value of a traveler pausing to pan across rugged terrain and water from a distant overlook rather than staging a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered canyon walls, a broad body of water, sloping arid hillsides, sparse trees or brush, pale overcast sky, erosion lines, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, handheld framing, slight vignetting, and contact-sheet gate edges that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, landscape transition, road-trip memory beat, or natural-history cutaway between human scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a personal 1970s view of an arid Western lakeside or canyon environment, emphasizing terrain and water rather than recreation, infrastructure, or settlement.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or obvious private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property considerations separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Lake Tahoe Nevada landscape, home movie canyon lake overlook, 1970s Western reservoir terrain, and vintage arid hills travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Lake Tahoe or Nevada landscape footage, and finally with broader 1970s American West terrain and waterway scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame of a Lake Tahoe, Nevada-area canyon or lakeside overlook with layered rock slopes, sparse brush, and water in the valley below. — Wide overlook of water between rugged hills.

1973 8mm frame showing rugged Lake Tahoe, Nevada-area terrain with a broad water body curving below steep, layered hillsides. — Layered hillside above a broad body of water.

1973 8mm home-movie view of eroded Lake Tahoe, Nevada-area hillside terrain descending toward water, with sparse trees and muted color from the film scan. — Eroded slope leading down toward the water.

1973 8mm frame of rough Lake Tahoe, Nevada-area hillsides with visible erosion lines, scattered vegetation, and a narrow water surface along the lower frame. — Rocky terrain and water at the base of the hills.

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