Lake Tahoe California-1939: Green Beautiful Pine Trees

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Green Beautiful Pine Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside cabin nestled among dense pine forests at Lake Tahoe, California. The rustic cabin with a green roof sits on rocky terrain beside calm blue waters, framed by towering evergreens and distant snow-dusted mountains under a clear sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic dark borders of an 8mm home movie, evoking a nostalgic, timeless feel of mid-century American outdoor life.

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: 127014262

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Lake Tahoe home-movie scenery for documentary or educational sequences needing a quiet lakeside forest establishing shot.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show late-1930s recreational cabins and forested shoreline, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or dated public landmarks in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering from a distant overlook on a cabin, pine trees, rocks, blue water, and mountains rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense pine trees, a small green-roof cabin, rocky shoreline, blue lake water, distant wooded hills, pale sky, and snow-touched mountains.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, gate edges, and gentle handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, location transition, reflective memory beat, or nature cutaway within a Western travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests outdoor leisure around Lake Tahoe, showing cabins integrated into forested lakeside terrain without visible crowds or commercial signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location concerns for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, vintage California pine forest lake cabin, and 1930s mountain lakeside travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe views, then broader vintage mountain lake and pine forest home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a forested rocky shoreline with a green-roof cabin, blue lake water, and distant mountain ridges. — Forested Lake Tahoe shoreline with a cabin among pines and rocks.

1939 Lake Tahoe view of pine-covered rocks, small lakeside cabins, blue water, wooded hills, and a pale mountain sky. — Small cabins sit among pines above the rocky lakeshore.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame with evergreens, a rocky shoreline, cabin roof detail, deep blue water, and distant forested hills. — Evergreens frame a rocky Lake Tahoe shoreline and blue water.

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm view of a green-roof cabin tucked among pines on rocky terrain beside vivid blue lake water. — A green-roof cabin is visible among pines beside Lake Tahoe.

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