Lake Tahoe California-1939: Mountain Lake Surrounded by Pine Trees

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Mountain Lake Surrounded by Pine Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene summer view of Lake Tahoe, California. Tall pine trees frame the foreground, their dark silhouettes contrasting against the calm, blue waters of the lake. Distant mountains rise under a soft sky, creating a peaceful, timeless landscape. The film's natural grain and slightly faded color palette enhance its authentic, nostalgic quality, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century American nature and leisure.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013989

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: 1930s Lake Tahoe home-movie landscape footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing an archival mountain-lake view.
Period detail: The clip shows a pine-framed mountain lake view on 8mm color film, with the 1939 Lake Tahoe setting supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the scenery from a visitor or vacationer's viewpoint, valuing a quiet remembered vista over staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall pine trunks, evergreen branches, blue lake water, a wooded opposite shore, distant mountains, pale sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, saturated blue tones, visible grain, edge vignetting, and slight exposure variation give the shot recognizable small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a calm scenic insert, memory beat, transition, or establishing cutaway for Lake Tahoe, summer travel, or western U.S. nature sequences.
Historical context: As visual evidence, it places leisure travel and landscape viewing within an amateur 1930s home-movie record without showing people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any broader use rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm footage, 1930s California mountain lake home movie, pine trees lake view, and vintage summer nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe footage, then broader 1930s western lake and mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing dark pine trunks before a calm blue lake and distant wooded mountains. — Pine trees frame a still view across Lake Tahoe toward forested mountains.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame with silhouetted pines in the foreground and blue water below a wooded mountain slope. — A quiet lake vista is seen through tall pines along the shoreline.

Lake Tahoe, supported by metadata, appears through foreground pines in a soft 1939 8mm home-movie view. — Foreground pines create a shaded frame around the lake and distant mountain ridge.

Final 1939 Lake Tahoe frame showing a still scenic view through pines toward water, forested shore, and mountains. — Tall pines remain in silhouette as the lake and mountain shore fill the background.

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