Lake Tahoe California-1938: Large Blue Lake Surrounded By Mountains And Trees

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

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Large Blue Lake Surrounded By Mountains And Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake surrounded by forested mountains. The footage, tinted with a deep blue hue likely from film degradation or filter, shows a calm body of water with a distant shoreline. A slow pan reveals the expansive landscape, with evergreen trees lining the left edge and a road or path visible along the far shore. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of early 20th-century American nature footage.

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: 127263445

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm Lake Tahoe scenery for documentary or museum sequences needing a quiet mountain-lake establishing view.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1938 visitor view of Lake Tahoe, with no visible buildings or vehicles to provide stronger era-specific detail.
Home-movie behavior: The slow handheld pan reflects an unstaged traveler recording the scale of the lake and surrounding forested mountains.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, distant wooded shoreline, mountain ridges, evergreen branches, a possible far-shore road or path, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The clip has pronounced blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, handheld drift, and gate-like borders consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, landscape transition, travel-memory beat, or contemplative cutaway within a Lake Tahoe or western nature sequence.
Historical context: The view offers a quiet prewar home-movie perspective on Lake Tahoe as a scenic destination, without showing identifiable visitors or developed landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Lake Tahoe home movie, vintage 8mm mountain lake, blue-tinted archival lake footage, or California nature travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Lake Tahoe material from 1938, then with broader 1930s mountain-lake and travel scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

Lake Tahoe, California, in blue-shifted 1938 8mm footage, showing calm water, a far wooded shore, and mountain ridges. — Blue-tinted view across Lake Tahoe toward a wooded shoreline and mountains.

Blue-shifted 1938 Lake Tahoe view with open water, a distant tree-lined shore, and layered mountain slopes. — Open lake water and distant Tahoe shoreline during a slow handheld pan.

1938 8mm view across Lake Tahoe, with a possible far-shore road or path below forested slopes and mountains. — Far shoreline and mountain slopes across the blue-tinted lake surface.

Late-frame Lake Tahoe view from 1938 home-movie footage, showing blue water, distant mountains, and a foreground tree edge. — Wide lake and mountain view with a small foreground tree silhouette.

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