Lake Tahoe California-1939: Steep Rock Formation And Mountain Peak At Dusk

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

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Steep Rock Formation And Mountain Peak At Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic mountain landscape at dusk. A steep, reddish-brown rock formation rises prominently against a pale sky, its rugged texture highlighted by warm, golden light. The lower slopes are cloaked in dark, dense forest, creating a striking contrast. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, with a natural, unsteady camera movement suggesting a personal travel recording. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet wilderness and mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or nature-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127014338

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 8mm Lake Tahoe landscape footage for editors needing a quiet mountain cutaway, travel-memory insert, or dusk wilderness establishing shot.
Period detail: The frames may show prewar-era amateur travel footage, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to date the scene beyond the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on a distant rock face and forested slope as a personal travel record rather than a staged scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a reddish rock formation, jagged ridge line, pale dusk sky, dark conifer forest, soft shadows, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, warm color shift, slight exposure falloff, and handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, transition beat, memory pause, or location texture between broader Lake Tahoe travel moments.
Historical context: The view documents a mountain landscape associated with Lake Tahoe, emphasizing natural terrain and recreational travel looking before later development appears in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property or permitting concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm mountain footage, vintage California rock formation, dusk forest ridge home movie, and 1930s scenic travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe scenes, then broader vintage California mountain, forest, and dusk landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame showing a reddish rock formation rising above a shadowed forest at dusk. — Reddish rock face and dark forest slope at dusk near Lake Tahoe.

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame with warm light on a steep rock formation above dense forest. — Warm light catches the upper rock formation above a shadowed tree line.

Lake Tahoe 1939 frame showing a softly focused red-brown ridge above a dark forested hillside. — Soft-focus view of the red-brown ridge and forested lower slope.

Final 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm frame with a rocky formation, dark forest, pale sky, and visible film borders. — Rocky formation and forested foreground held in a vintage 8mm frame.

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