Lake Tahoe California USA-1978: Flooded Water with Tree Reflections and Green Tint

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 California

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Flooded Water with Tree Reflections and Green Tint — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1978, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched, flooded landscape at Lake Tahoe, California. The camera pans across murky, green-tinged water reflecting overgrown grass and scattered tree branches. A dark tree trunk appears on the left edge, while the water's surface shows ripples and debris. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a summer flood. This raw, unedited clip offers authentic period atmosphere for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123101238

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1978 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Lake Tahoe, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to archive requests for Lake Tahoe flooding, standing water, tree reflections, or natural landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The frames offer few date-specific clues, but the 1978 source metadata and 8mm color rendering support a late-1970s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes flooded ground and reflected trees without staging, preserving a quiet personal record of weather-altered landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shallow green-brown water, reflected trees, dark trunks, submerged grass, small branches, surface debris, and sunlit ripples.
Film character: The clip carries physical 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, color shift, gate marks, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature cutaway, environmental insert, reflective transition, or memory beat within a 1970s travel or weather sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents standing water in a wooded Lake Tahoe setting, without enough detail to identify a specific storm, property, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or apparent private structures are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm flooded water, vintage home movie tree reflections, and 1970s California standing water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lake Tahoe 1978 material, then broader 1970s water, flood, and landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing shallow flooded water, reflected trees, submerged grass, and a dark trunk along the left edge. — Standing water reflects trees and grass in a wooded Lake Tahoe scene.

1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame with green-tinted standing water, soft tree reflections, and a dark vertical trunk dividing the view. — A dark tree trunk cuts through reflected trees in shallow standing water.

1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing flooded grass, reflected branches, dark trunks, and small bright highlights on the water. — Flooded grass and reflected branches fill the lower part of the wooded view.

1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing shallow flooded water, reflected trees, a central dark trunk, dangling branches, and floating debris. — Branches and a central trunk appear over murky reflected water.

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