Lake Tahoe California-1939: Lake and Forest Reflected in Still Water

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Lake and Forest Reflected in Still Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view at Lake Tahoe, California. The scene is framed by dark tree trunks and a silhouetted pine branch in the foreground, with a calm lake reflecting the surrounding evergreen forest. The image exhibits the characteristic blue and purple color cast of early color film, with soft focus and film grain. No people or animals are visible in the frame, presenting a quiet, natural landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013956

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 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: Supports 1930s documentary or editorial requests for quiet Lake Tahoe home-movie landscape footage with forest reflections and no visible people.
Period detail: The 1939 date is supported by metadata, while the visible period clues are mainly the early color 8mm palette, soft focus, and amateur scenic framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patient visitor-shot quality of a home movie, holding on a lakeside view through foreground trees rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark tree trunks, an overhanging pine branch, evergreen forest, calm lake water, shoreline shrubs, reflections, and distant wooded slopes.
Film character: The footage carries blue-purple early color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and the gentle instability of 8mm home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, reflective transition, travel-memory beat, or quiet establishing cutaway for Lake Tahoe or mountain-lake material.
Historical context: The view documents a leisure-era lakeshore perspective, emphasizing forest, water, and stillness rather than buildings, roads, visitors, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and location-specific use should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm footage, vintage California lake home movie, forest reflection cutaway, and 1930s scenic travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then broader vintage mountain lake and forest-reflection footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a still lake, evergreen forest reflections, and dark foreground trees. — A quiet lakeside view is framed by tree trunks and a silhouetted pine branch.

Lake Tahoe scene from 1939 with still water, evergreen reflections, and shadowed foreground trees. — The camera holds on the reflective lake and wooded shoreline through dark foreground trees.

Vintage 8mm Lake Tahoe frame showing calm water, forested shore, and blue-purple early color cast. — Soft color and grain give the lake and forest reflections a distinctly home-movie texture.

1939 Lake Tahoe view through foreground trees, showing a calm reflective lake and wooded shore. — The final frame keeps the lakeshore composition, with trees silhouetted against water and forest.

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