Lake Tahoe California-1939: Summer Time Family Weekend At The Country Cabin In

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

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Summer Time Family Weekend At The Country Cabin In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a light-colored dress standing on the wooden porch of a rustic cabin at Lake Tahoe, California. The cabin features dark wood siding and a green shingled roof, surrounded by tall pine trees under a bright blue sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic summer vacation atmosphere. The scene is peaceful, with the woman standing still as if posing for the camera, while a striped awning and stacked firewood add to the rustic charm. This archival footage offers authentic 1930s Americana for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127014435

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 home-movie requests needing a quiet Lake Tahoe cabin exterior with a posed adult figure for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The rustic wood cabin, green shingled roof, porch steps, awning, and light summer dress support a late-1930s vacation setting as described in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman stands still on the porch as if posing for a family camera, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie record of a summer cabin visit.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a woman on a wooden porch, dark cabin siding, green roof shingles, porch railings, striped awning, stacked wood, rocks, and tall pines.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue sky, slight color shift, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into a family vacation, cabin life, or Lake Tahoe leisure sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows a modest recreational cabin setting and outdoor posing behavior associated with family travel, without proving ownership or a specific resort site.
Research note: A visible adult face and identifiable cabin exterior may require likeness or property review, while copyright status should be assessed separately from those concerns.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1939 Lake Tahoe cabin home movie, 1930s family vacation 8mm, woman on rustic porch, and vintage California summer cabin footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family cabin scenes, then with Lake Tahoe or 1939 material, and finally with broader 1930s summer vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame of a woman in a light dress standing on the porch of a rustic cabin among tall pines. — A woman poses on the wooden porch of a rustic Lake Tahoe cabin with a green roof and striped awning.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame showing a woman posed at a cabin entrance beside porch railings, an awning, and pine trees. — The cabin porch, awning, and green roof frame a woman standing at the entrance.

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie still of a woman standing outside a rustic cabin with porch steps and an awning visible. — A still view of the cabin entrance shows the woman posed near the porch steps.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame of a posed woman on a rustic cabin porch, with roof shingles, awning, railings, and trees visible. — The final frame keeps the woman centered near the cabin doorway under the porch awning.

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