Lake Tahoe California-1969: Man Tries To Perform Tricks With Dolphins But It

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Lake Tahoe California

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Man Tries To Perform Tricks With Dolphins But It — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and yellow pants attempts to perform water tricks on a board while riding a dolphin at Lake Tahoe, California in 1969. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the man balancing on the dolphin as it swims through the water, leaving a white wake. Colorful buoy markers dot the lake, and a crowd watches from a viewing area. The scene has a nostalgic, vintage quality with natural lighting and film grain, capturing a unique moment of human-animal interaction during a summer vacation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124610178

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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, California, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s documentary or editorial requests for Lake Tahoe vacation footage, water shows, and unusual human-animal performance scenes on amateur 8mm film.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s lakeside attraction setting, with bright casual clothing, buoy-marked water, spectator railings, and home-movie filming from a visitor viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective as spectators watch a performer balance on or near dolphins during a lakeside show, with framing that feels spontaneous rather than staged for publicity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a performer on the water, dolphins or dolphin-shaped forms, white wake, floating buoys, spectators behind a railing, a themed platform, and a brief road-travel shot.
Film character: The 8mm scan has strong grain, high-contrast exposure, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld framing that give the scene a clear physical-film home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transitional cutaway for 1960s vacations, Lake Tahoe tourism, animal performances, or roadside family travel.
Historical context: The footage reflects a period vacation attraction where crowds observed water-based animal performance, while the final road frame broadens the scene into a family travel record.
Research note: People and likely faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright status, performer identity, animal facility identity, and any property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s Lake Tahoe home movie, 8mm dolphin show, vintage water performance, California vacation footage, and family travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel vacation and road shots, then with Lake Tahoe or 1969 California material, then with broader themes of 1960s tourism and animal shows.

Still Frames From This Clip

Lake Tahoe 1969 home-movie frame showing a performer in light clothing balancing on or near a dolphin in dark water with a white wake. — A performer rides across the lake surface as a wake cuts through the water.

Visitor-shot Lake Tahoe water show scene with spectators in the foreground, buoys on the water, and a white wake crossing the performance area. — Spectators look out over the buoy-marked water during the show.

1969 Lake Tahoe frame showing a performer low on the water near floating markers and a brightly painted platform at the edge of the show area. — The water performer passes near buoy markers and a themed platform.

Home-movie road shot from the same 1969 travel footage, showing a car ahead on an open road with dry terrain and distant hills. — A car travels along an open road in a brief travel cutaway.

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