Lake Tahoe Nevada USA-1973: Beautiful Shoreline Of A Lake With Many Trees And Classic Cars

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

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Beautiful Shoreline Of A Lake With Many Trees And... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a serene lakeside scene at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The clip captures a tranquil shoreline with a dense forest of tall pine trees bordering a calm lake under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. A grassy lawn and a parking area with several classic cars from the era are visible along the shore. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic dark borders of 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic, authentic 1970s vacation memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120962406

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 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 for productions needing a calm Lake Tahoe shoreline establishing view with forest, water, lawn, and period parked cars.
Period detail: The visible parked automobiles, soft home-movie color, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the scene in an early-1970s leisure setting without identifying specific makes or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot vacation overlook, observing a lakeside recreation area from a distance rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, the view includes blue lake water, a sandy or rocky shore, grassy lawn, tall pine forest, a line of parked cars, distant hills, clouds, and tiny people near the waterline.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, slight color fading, soft focus, exposure variation, and dark contact-sheet borders that preserve the texture of the original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, lakeside transition, or period vacation atmosphere beat.
Historical context: The scene documents a 1970s lakeside recreation landscape where cars, open lawn, forest, and shoreline share the frame in a casual public outdoor setting.
Research note: People appear only as very small distant figures, with no readable logos visible, but likeness, location, copyright, and any property-context questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Lake Tahoe Nevada 8mm home movie, 1970s lake shoreline with classic cars, pine forest lakeside vacation footage, and vintage family travel lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Lake Tahoe or Nevada shoreline material, and then broader 1970s vacation, lake, forest, and roadside recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada home-movie frame showing blue lake water, a narrow shore, tall pine trees, grassy lawn, and several small parked cars in the distance. — Lakeshore with pines and parked cars.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada home-movie frame with calm lake water in front of a forested shoreline, a lawn, several parked cars, and tiny distant people near the water. — Forested lakeshore and recreation area.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada frame showing lake water below a shoreline recreation area with grass, tall trees, several parked cars, and small distant people along the edge. — Shoreline parking area by the lake.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada home-movie frame with blue water, rocky shoreline, a grassy area, tall pines, parked cars, and tiny people visible near the shore. — Rocky lakeshore with pines and cars.

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