Lake Tahoe California-1939: Scenic Lakeside View With Pine Trees And Rocky Shores

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

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Scenic Lakeside View With Pine Trees And Rocky Shores — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view at Lake Tahoe, California. The clip features a rocky shoreline in the foreground, a calm blue lake, and a small island with tall pine trees. In the distance, forested hills rise under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful natural landscape 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: 127014186

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: Useful for 1930s documentary or educational requests needing a quiet Lake Tahoe nature cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1930s color 8mm travel filming, with no visible cars, signs, clothing, or built landmarks to date the view independently.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on shoreline, water, trees, and distant hills rather than staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, rocky foreground shore, a small pine-covered island or point, forested hills, distant snow patches, and clear sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame edges that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, establishing cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat for Lake Tahoe and western mountain landscapes.
Historical context: The view documents recreational looking at a mountain lake landscape, with the natural shoreline emphasized and no human activity visible in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1939 8mm Lake Tahoe shoreline, vintage California lake scenery, pine trees rocky shore, and 1930s home movie mountain lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then broader vintage mountain lake and western nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm Lake Tahoe view with rocky foreground, calm blue water, a pine-covered shore, distant hills, and clear sky. — Rocky shoreline and pine trees beside calm Lake Tahoe water.

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a pine-covered lakeside point, blue water, rocky shore, distant hills, and clear sky. — Pine trees rise from a rocky lakeside point across the blue water.

1939 Lake Tahoe scene with blue water, rocks in the foreground, tall pines on shore, forested hills, and distant snow patches. — Tall pines and distant snow patches frame a quiet lakeside view.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame with calm blue water, rocky shoreline, tall pines, dark forested hills, distant snow, and clear sky. — A lakeside pine stand is seen against forested hills and distant snow.

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