Lake Tahoe California-1939: Cabin Among The Trees On The Rocky Hill Leaning

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

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Cabin Among The Trees On The Rocky Hill Leaning — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a rustic cabin nestled among tall pine trees on a rocky hillside overlooking Lake Tahoe, California. The camera pans slowly across the natural landscape, revealing the rugged shoreline, dense forest, and the secluded cabin partially hidden by trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight color saturation, grain, and soft focus—evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American outdoor retreat. This archival clip offers authentic 1930s-era scenery and atmosphere, perfect for historical documentaries, nature montages, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127014120

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 scenery for productions needing an archival cutaway of a rustic lakeside cabin and pine-covered rocky shoreline.
Period detail: The footage may show a simple cabin retreat with pitched rooflines, tall conifers, and undeveloped rocky lakeshore consistent with the supplied 1939 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan reads as a traveler or family visitor recording the setting from across the water rather than staged coverage of the cabin.
What appears in frame: Visible details include Lake Tahoe shoreline, dark pine trunks, rocky ground, low brush, a small dock or platform, and a cabin partly hidden among trees.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, saturated blues and greens, uneven exposure, and handheld panning that give the scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for a lakeside vacation, mountain retreat, or prewar California travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a quiet cabin landscape at Lake Tahoe, offering visual context for outdoor leisure and shoreline development without identifying a specific property.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the cabin may require property-context review and copyright clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 8mm Lake Tahoe cabin, 1930s California mountain lake home movie, pine forest shoreline, and rustic lakeside retreat footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then broader 1930s mountain lake and cabin exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe view of a rocky lakeshore with tall pines and a cabin partly obscured among the trees. — A cabin sits back among pines above the rocky Lake Tahoe shoreline.

Lake Tahoe cabin exterior partly hidden by pines on a rocky hillside, from supplied 1939 home-movie footage. — The pan continues across pines and rocks toward the cabin on the slope.

1939 Lake Tahoe cabin view framed by pine trunks, rocks, brush, and a small foreground boulder near the shore. — A rustic cabin appears through the trees above the uneven lakeside ground.

Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a cabin partially screened by pines on a rocky hillside in 1939 footage. — The cabin is most visible here, partly blocked by dark tree trunks and brush.

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