Lake Tahoe California-1939: Still Video Of Rocky Mountain Peak In The Daytime

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

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Still Video Of Rocky Mountain Peak In The Daytime — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic rocky mountain peak bathed in warm, golden light during the daytime. The rugged cliff face, with its textured red and brown rock formations, rises above a dense forest of dark evergreen trees. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, subtle grain, and a slightly faded color palette with purplish tones in the shadows. The scene is static, offering a serene, timeless view of natural geology in the Lake Tahoe region.

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: 127014320

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 8mm home-movie nature footage useful for documentary or educational sequences needing a quiet Lake Tahoe mountain landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The visible clue is primarily the physical 8mm color-film look, with no people, vehicles, signage, or architecture to date the scene beyond the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot home-movie pause on a scenic ridge, holding the camera on warm rock and dark trees rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a reddish rocky cliff face, uneven ridge line, pale sky, dark evergreen forest, deep shadowed foreground, film gate edges, and soft focus.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, warm reddish exposure, purplish shadows, and slight frame-to-frame steadiness changes.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a landscape insert, geographic transition, travel-memory beat, or quiet establishing cutaway within a Lake Tahoe or mountain sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a natural mountain view in the Lake Tahoe region without showing roads, tourism facilities, people, or built development.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any location-specific permissions for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Lake Tahoe mountain footage, vintage home movie rocky peak, evergreen forest cliff view, and 1930s California landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then broader vintage mountain, forest, geology, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a warm reddish rocky ridge rising above dark evergreen forest beneath a pale sky. — Rocky ridge and evergreen forest in warm light, framed by the 8mm film gate.

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm view of a rugged red-brown cliff face and peak above shadowed evergreen trees. — Rugged cliff face and peak held in a static home-movie landscape shot.

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame with a reddish mountain ridge, pale sky, and dark evergreen forest in the foreground. — Soft-focus ridge line above a dark band of trees and foreground shadow.

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a red-brown rocky cliff and peak over dark evergreen trees. — Warm-toned cliff and peak seen across a shadowed forested slope.

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