Lake Tahoe California-1939: A Beautiful Lake Surrounded By Lots Of Trees In A

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

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A Beautiful Lake Surrounded By Lots Of Trees In A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Lake Tahoe, California. The clip features a calm blue lake surrounded by dense pine trees and forested mountains under a clear sky. The footage shows natural movement on the water's surface and subtle film grain, with a dark frame border suggesting a window or viewfinder perspective. The color palette includes rich blues, greens, and earthy tones, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of a classic American lakeside landscape.

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: 127014586

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 Lake Tahoe home-movie scenery for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a calm lakeside landscape insert.
Period detail: The color 8mm framing, soft focus, and scenic vacation viewpoint support the 1939 metadata, though no visible signs or landmarks identify a precise Tahoe shore.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor pausing on a scenic overlook, holding on trees, water, and distant mountains rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, pine trees, a rocky shoreline, forested hills, distant light-toned shore structures, sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, slight softness, saturated blues and greens, minor weave, and dark rounded frame borders that add period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, regional cutaway, or reflective memory beat for prewar American vacation footage.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure-oriented landscape viewing at Lake Tahoe in the late 1930s without showing people, vehicles, signage, or specific built activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location-use concerns for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, 1930s California lake scenery, vintage pine shoreline footage, and prewar mountain lake travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 Lake Tahoe or California travel footage, then broader vintage lake, forest, mountain, and vacation scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing pine trees on a rocky shore, blue water, distant forested hills, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Pines and rocky shoreline frame a calm view across Lake Tahoe toward forested hills.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame with a pine cluster on the shore, calm blue water, distant wooded hills, and visible home-movie film borders. — A pine-covered point extends into the lake with distant hills across the water.

1939 Lake Tahoe home-movie view of evergreen trees beside blue water, with a rocky shore and distant mountains under pale sky. — Evergreen trees stand along a rocky lakeside edge with mountains visible across the water.

1939 Lake Tahoe frame showing lakeside pines, calm blue water, rocky shoreline, distant forested hills, and dark 8mm edge framing. — The lake and pine shoreline remain steady in a quiet scenic home-movie view.

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