Lake Tahoe California-1939: Well Wooded Forest A Good Place For Wild Animals To

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

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Well Wooded Forest A Good Place For Wild Animals To — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a secluded cabin nestled in a dense, sun-dappled forest at Lake Tahoe, California. Tall pine trees frame the rustic wooden structure, with a small porch and steps visible through the foliage. The footage, slightly blurred and exhibiting classic Super 8 color shifts, shows a quiet, natural setting with green undergrowth and scattered rocks. The camera pans slowly, revealing the peaceful woodland environment, evoking a sense of nostalgia and untouched wilderness from the late 1930s.

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: 127014130

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 footage suited for documentary inserts about mountain cabins, wooded recreation areas, or prewar California travel.
Period detail: The rustic cabin, simple porch rail, and 8mm color stock may show a late-1930s visitor view of a Tahoe forest setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the cabin from among trees, giving the clip the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing to record a quiet woodland scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall pines, a small wooden cabin, porch railings, steps, boulders, green undergrowth, and patches of blue sky.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm texture with soft focus, saturated greens and blues, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing through the trees.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mountain travel, woodland solitude, or rustic lodging.
Historical context: The footage documents a forested recreational landscape at Lake Tahoe without visible people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the cabin exterior suggests property context that may need separate review from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Lake Tahoe forest cabin, 8mm California mountain woods, vintage home movie pine trees, and rustic cabin footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then broader 1930s forest, cabin, and mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a rustic cabin glimpsed through tall pines, rocks, and green woodland growth. — A cabin sits back among pines and rocks in the Tahoe forest.

Lake Tahoe forest view from 1939, with a small cabin and porch framed by pine trunks and sunlit undergrowth. — The cabin porch is visible through a screen of pine trees.

A 1939 Tahoe woodland frame with the cabin partly leaving view as the camera pans across pines, rocks, and low vegetation. — The camera moves past the cabin toward denser forest.

Late-1930s Lake Tahoe forest view with tall pines, scattered boulders, and green undergrowth after the cabin has mostly passed out of frame. — The pan settles on trees, rocks, and forest undergrowth.

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