Lake Tahoe California-1969: Footage Of A High Rocky Cliff Face Filmed From The

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

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Footage Of A High Rocky Cliff Face Filmed From The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic view of a high rocky cliff face at Lake Tahoe, California. The camera tilts upward from the shadowed base of the rugged terrain to reveal jagged peaks silhouetted against a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color shifts with a dominant purple hue, film grain, and natural light contrasts, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The perspective suggests a first-person view from within a canyon or valley, emphasizing the scale and raw beauty of the natural landscape.

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: 124613348

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival productions needing a brief natural-landscape cutaway of Lake Tahoe cliffs, rocky canyon terrain, or visitor-shot Western scenery.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie format, color shift, grain, and handheld framing rather than dated clothing, vehicles, signage, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing below a cliff face and tilting or holding the camera upward to register the scale of the rocks.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep rock walls, jagged sunlit peaks, shadowed canyon surfaces, pale ground or snow-like patches, blue sky, film gate edges, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with heavy grain, purple-blue color cast, uneven exposure, soft focus, and slight frame instability from the original scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, geography transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a Lake Tahoe or Western travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a 1969 home-movie view of rugged Lake Tahoe terrain, emphasizing landscape scale without visible people, vehicles, signage, or built environment.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright licensing and any location-sensitive use requirements separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 8mm Lake Tahoe cliff footage, vintage California rocky canyon home movie, and 1960s travel film mountain landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Lake Tahoe material, then broader 1960s California mountain, cliff, or travel landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a steep shadowed rock face with jagged bright peaks against a clear blue sky. — A steep rocky wall fills the frame, with sunlit peaks visible above the darker cliff face.

1969 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame with rough cliff textures, bright ridge tops, and a narrow band of blue sky. — The camera frames the upper cliff and ridge, contrasting bright rock tops with shaded canyon walls.

1969 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame looking across pale ground or snow-like terrain at the base of steep rocky walls. — A pale slope or canyon floor appears beneath the surrounding rock faces in soft, purple-shifted color.

1969 Lake Tahoe frame showing a pale slope at the base of rocky terrain, with dark shadowed rock and visible film borders. — The lower canyon view shows pale ground, dark rock shadow, and rugged cliff texture near the frame edge.

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