Lake Tahoe California-1938: Landscape Of Trees On A Lake Surrounded By Mountains

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

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Landscape Of Trees On A Lake Surrounded By Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape of Lake Tahoe, California. The footage features a wide view of the lake surrounded by distant mountains, with evergreen trees in the foreground. The scene is bathed in a distinct blue-purple color cast, characteristic of early color film processes. The camera remains mostly static, offering a tranquil, 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: 127263421

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: Useful for 1930s archival requests needing a quiet Lake Tahoe landscape, natural scenery insert, or period travel-home-movie establishing shot.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s visitor footage, with no vehicles, signage, clothing, or built landmarks visible to confirm era beyond the supplied 1938 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the amateur visitor viewpoint: a mostly static look across water, trees, and distant mountains without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, evergreen trees, a dark shoreline band, hazy mountain ridges, open sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a blue-purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and scanned 8mm contact-frame texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a tranquil cutaway, geographic transition, memory beat, or nature insert within a 1930s travel or Sierra Nevada sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational home-movie attention to scenery and landscape rather than documented public events or identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-use concerns for their project.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, 1930s California lake landscape, Sierra Nevada mountains footage, and vintage travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Lake Tahoe views, then broader 1930s mountain-lake and travel-home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame with evergreens in the foreground, blue water, a dark shoreline, and hazy mountain ridges beyond. — Evergreens frame a distant Lake Tahoe shoreline and mountain horizon.

1938 Lake Tahoe landscape view showing evergreen tops, a blue-purple lake surface, far shoreline, and soft mountain ridge silhouettes. — A wide blue-purple view across Lake Tahoe toward distant ridges.

Lake Tahoe, supported by metadata, appears in a soft 8mm frame with foreground evergreens, blue water, and layered mountains in the distance. — Foreground trees sit below a broad lake and hazy mountain horizon.

A closer 1938 Lake Tahoe frame shows dark evergreen branches over blue water, with a faint opposite shoreline and hillside beyond. — Evergreen branches partly obscure a blue lake and far shoreline.

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