Emerald Bay California-1938: A Lake Surrounded By A Mountain Range And The Tall

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationEmerald Bay, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Emerald Bay California

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A Lake Surrounded By A Mountain Range And The Tall — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Emerald Bay, California, framed by tall evergreen trees. The scene reveals a vast blue lake surrounded by a distant mountain range under a hazy sky, with a small forested island visible in the middle distance. The footage exhibits the characteristic blue and purple color cast of early color film, with soft focus and natural film grain. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a classic California landscape, perfect for historical documentaries, nature montages, or retro-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: 127262470

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 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: Emerald Bay, 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 home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a calm Emerald Bay lake view.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1938 visitor view with no modern structures visible, relying on the film format, color cast, and metadata for its period identification.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a quiet scenic overlook perspective, framing the lake through tall evergreen trunks and branches rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, a forested island, distant mountain ridges, hazy sky, evergreen trees, and dark vertical foreground trunks.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and a blue-purple color cast that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a California travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a quiet lakeside overlook in Emerald Bay, with landscape and visitor perspective emphasized over identifiable human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location-based property or permit questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s 8mm Emerald Bay lake view, vintage California home movie landscape, and forested island mountain lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Emerald Bay or California lake views, then broader mountain lake and evergreen landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Emerald Bay view with blue lake water, a forested island, distant mountain ridges, and dark evergreen trunks framing the scene. — Lake and forested island seen through evergreen trees at Emerald Bay.

Emerald Bay lake scene framed by tall evergreens, with a forested island in the middle distance and mountains beyond the water. — Forested island and mountain range across the lake.

Soft-focus 1938 Emerald Bay view showing blue water, a wooded island, hazy mountains, and evergreen trees along the overlook. — Soft 8mm view of Emerald Bay with trees and distant mountains.

Emerald Bay landscape framed by evergreen branches, with a wooded island across the blue lake and a muted mountain range in the distance. — Evergreen-framed view across Emerald Bay toward mountains.

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