Lake Tahoe California-1938: Scenic Location Sign and Mountain Lake Vista

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Lake Tahoe California

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Scenic Location Sign and Mountain Lake Vista — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1938 captures a title card listing scenic locations: Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe, Mount Tallac, and Desolation Valley. The footage transitions to a sweeping, hazy blue-tinted vista of a vast lake surrounded by evergreen trees and distant mountains, evoking a nostalgic early 20th-century travelogue. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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: 127263355

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: 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: Supports 1930s travelogue or documentary edits needing Lake Tahoe-region scenic title-card material and a brief mountain lake vista from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The typed title card and 8mm texture point to late-1930s amateur travel filmmaking, with the listed Tahoe-area locations supported by the visible card text.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot scenic itinerary, moving from a homemade location card to a distant overlook of water, trees, and mountains.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a typed scenic title card, dark film borders, mottled film texture, blue-tinted lake water, evergreen trees, haze, and distant mountains.
Film character: The footage carries pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, exposure fluctuation, gate edges, and blue color shift that read as original physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, location transition, travel-memory beat, or scenic cutaway within a Tahoe, mountain recreation, or amateur-film sequence.
Historical context: The card presents Tahoe-area scenery as a mapped leisure destination, while the lake view shows the landscape through a personal travel-film perspective.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location permissions for their use case.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 8mm Lake Tahoe home movie, Fallen Leaf Lake title card, Mount Tallac scenic footage, and Desolation Valley travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Lake Tahoe or Fallen Leaf Lake footage, then broader 1930s mountain-lake travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Lake Tahoe-region 8mm title card reading views of Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe, Mount Tallac, and Desolation Valley. — Title card introduces the Tahoe-area scenic views included in the reel.

A second view of the 1938 Tahoe-area title card, with soft focus, grain, and dark frame edges around the typed location list. — The location card remains on screen with visible film wear and soft focus.

Close, soft 8mm frame of the Lake Tahoe-region title card, with Desolation Valley text partly clipped by the frame edge. — The scenic title card is held long enough to read most listed destinations.

1938 Lake Tahoe-area 8mm vista showing blue water, foreground evergreens, haze, and low mountains in the distance. — The title card gives way to a blue-tinted overlook of lake, trees, and mountains.

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