Lake Tahoe California-1939: Pine Trees And A Patch Of Land Near The Lake

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

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Pine Trees And A Patch Of Land Near The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape at Lake Tahoe, California. The view, framed by dark tree silhouettes in the foreground, reveals a calm blue lake surrounded by pine-covered hills under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, natural grain, and slightly faded color tones typical of early 20th-century home movies. The scene remains still, offering a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse of the natural beauty of the Sierra Nevada region during the late 1930s.

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: 127014577

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: Useful for 1930s documentary or educational requests needing a quiet Lake Tahoe landscape cutaway from original 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene shows natural lakeshore and pine-covered hills, with the 1939 period supported by clip metadata rather than visible dated signs or clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The static visitor viewpoint records scenery rather than staged action, preserving a home-movie pause on water, trees, and shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, a rocky patch of land, pine trees, distant wooded hills, pale sky, and dark foreground tree silhouettes.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue tones, slight exposure variation, and dark edge framing from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, scenic transition, memory beat, or visual bridge for travel and nature sequences.
Historical context: The clip offers a late-1930s home-movie view of Lake Tahoe as a scenic recreation landscape without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location/property context, and source permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, vintage California lake scenery, pine trees by water, and Sierra Nevada landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe material, then vintage lake, pine forest, and Sierra Nevada travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing pine trees, a rocky lakeshore, blue water, and distant wooded hills. — Pine trees frame a small lakeside point with Lake Tahoe and wooded hills in the background.

Lake Tahoe, California, in a 1939 8mm frame with pines, still blue water, and wooded hills beyond the shore. — A tree-covered lakeside point sits between dark foreground silhouettes and distant hills.

Soft 8mm view of Lake Tahoe with a pine-lined rocky shore, calm water, and wooded hills in the distance. — The camera holds on a quiet Tahoe shoreline with pines, water, and distant hills.

Late-1930s Lake Tahoe home-movie still showing pines on a rocky shore across blue water and wooded hills. — A still scenic view shows pines along a rocky lakeshore under a clear sky.

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