El Dorado City California-1938: Martins Lodge Lake Tahoe

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationEl Dorado City, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 El Dorado City California

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Martins Lodge Lake Tahoe — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1938 captures the title card for Martin's Lodge at Lake Tahoe in El Dorado City, California. The grainy, monochrome footage displays the lodge's name in bold white lettering against a dark textured background, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century home movie aesthetic. The scene transitions to a purple-tinted exterior shot of the rustic log cabin lodge, surrounded by pine trees, with a sign for the dining room visible. This archival footage offers a glimpse into historic California mountain resort life.

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: 127261969

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 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: El Dorado City, 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 California resort, Lake Tahoe travel, and home-movie productions needing a brief lodge title card and exterior establishing insert.
Period detail: The typed title card, 8mm frame edges, rustic roofline, log construction, and pine setting support a late-1930s mountain lodge context from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a filmed title card to a quick exterior look at a lodge entrance and dining room sign.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Martin's Lodge title card, Lake Tahoe lettering, El Dorado County text, a steep lodge roof, dormer windows, pine trees, log posts, and a dining room sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and a purple color cast that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, chapter transition, resort-travel cutaway, or memory beat before broader Lake Tahoe vacation footage.
Historical context: The footage visually places Martin's Lodge within a pine-lined mountain resort setting without confirming ownership, exact building history, or later site changes.
Research note: The visible lodge name and dining room sign should be reviewed for trademark, property, and location-identification issues, separate from film copyright clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, Martin's Lodge exterior, El Dorado County resort footage, and vintage California mountain lodge.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots from Martin's Lodge, then other 1938 Lake Tahoe or El Dorado County footage, then broader vintage mountain resort travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm title card for Martin's Lodge at Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, shown in grainy black-and-white film. — Title card identifies Martin's Lodge at Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California.

Repeat 1938 title-card frame naming Martin's Lodge at Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, with soft 8mm grain. — A repeated title-card view names Martin's Lodge and Lake Tahoe.

Purple-tinted 8mm exterior view of Martin's Lodge at Lake Tahoe, showing a steep roof, dormer windows, log posts, and pines. — Rustic lodge exterior with dormer windows, log construction, and surrounding pine trees.

Late-1930s Lake Tahoe lodge exterior from 8mm film, with dormer windows, pine trees, log supports, and a visible dining room sign. — The lodge exterior appears again, with the dining room sign partly visible above the roofline.

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