Lake Tahoe California-1969: Smoke Rising From A Forest Fire In The Mountains

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

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Smoke Rising From A Forest Fire In The Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures smoke rising from a forest fire in Lake Tahoe, California. The footage shows a small blaze burning on a hillside, with thick white smoke billowing into the air. A tree trunk frames the right side of the shot, and the scorched ground suggests a recent or ongoing wildfire. The scene transitions to a calm lake, reflecting the surrounding trees. This archival Super 8 clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a natural disaster in the Sierra Nevada, ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nature-themed projects.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: 124615024

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: 1969 Lake Tahoe 8mm footage supports archival requests for Sierra Nevada wildfire smoke, wooded hillside fire, and nature cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The scanned 8mm color, soft exposure, and handheld framing may show late-1960s home-movie documentation of outdoor conditions around Lake Tahoe.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the smoke, small flames, trees, and nearby lake from a casual home-movie vantage rather than a staged news or official record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white smoke, small orange flames, charred forest floor, dark tree trunks, green lake water, reflections, shoreline branches, and film gate edges.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give it physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief wildfire insert, environmental transition, lakeside contrast cutaway, or memory beat within 1960s California outdoor footage.
Historical context: The footage visually connects forest fire activity with the Lake Tahoe landscape without identifying a specific wildfire, agency response, or named site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-context questions still require project-specific review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Lake Tahoe 8mm forest fire smoke, California home movie wildfire, Sierra Nevada lake and smoke footage, and vintage outdoor disaster cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Lake Tahoe footage, then broader archival themes of wildfire, forests, lakes, and Sierra Nevada landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a small hillside fire with white smoke rising through dark tree trunks. — A small blaze sends white smoke upward on a wooded slope near Lake Tahoe.

Smoke billows from a small fire on forested ground in the Lake Tahoe area, filmed on 8mm in 1969. — Smoke thickens above a small fire on a wooded hillside.

Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing green water, reflections, and shoreline debris after the fire view. — The scene shifts from the hillside fire to calm green lake water.

1969 Lake Tahoe footage shows calm green water and reflections, contrasting with the earlier smoke and fire frames. — Calm lake water provides a quiet contrast to the preceding smoke and flames.

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