Lake Tahoe California-1939: Picture Of A River Surrounded By Beautiful Trees

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

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Picture Of A River Surrounded By Beautiful Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape at Lake Tahoe, California. The clip opens with a wide view of a calm lake surrounded by tall pine trees under a clear blue sky, with snow-capped mountains visible in the distance. The camera then moves through a dense forest of towering evergreens, showcasing the lush greenery and natural beauty of the Sierra Nevada. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, saturated colors, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers authentic 1930s Americana scenery, perfect for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127014199

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 documentary inserts, environmental history segments, travel retrospectives, or period memory sequences needing non-urban Sierra Nevada views.
Period detail: The frames may show prewar visitor footage of Lake Tahoe and surrounding evergreen forest, with no visible roads, buildings, people, vehicles, signs, or branded objects to date the scene independently.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, lingering on water, distant mountains, and tall trees rather than staged action or formal landscape coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, rocky shoreline, snow-dusted distant mountains, tall conifers, forest floor grasses, tree trunks, clear sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue and green color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that provide useful archival texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short scenic insert, place-setting cutaway, transition from lake to forest, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it documents recreational-looking attention to Lake Tahoe scenery and Sierra forest without showing people, infrastructure, or identifiable activities.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, vintage Sierra Nevada forest footage, California mountain lake archive film, and prewar travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lake Tahoe 1939 material, then broader 1930s California mountain, lake, forest, or home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing blue water, rocky shore, tall conifers, and distant snow-dusted mountains. — A wide lakeside view frames pines, blue water, rocky shore, and distant Sierra mountains.

1939 Lake Tahoe footage shows a calm mountain lake bordered by conifers and rocky shoreline under clear sky. — Evergreen trees and rocks edge a blue lake with pale mountain ridges in the distance.

1939 Lake Tahoe area home-movie frame looking through a Sierra evergreen forest with grasses, rocks, and tall trunks. — The camera shifts into the forest, showing trunks, conifers, grasses, and scattered rocks.

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame of tall Sierra conifers rising from a green forest floor beneath clear blue sky. — Tall conifers fill the frame above low greenery and rocks in the Sierra forest.

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