Lake Tahoe California-1938: Lake Surrounded by Pine Forest and Mountains

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

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Lake Surrounded by Pine Forest and Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape at Lake Tahoe, California. The footage features a tranquil lake surrounded by dense pine forests and distant mountains under a soft, purplish-blue tint characteristic of early color film. Tall evergreen trees frame the view, with the water stretching toward hazy hills in the background. The image shows natural film grain and slight color distortion, offering an authentic glimpse into mid-20th century scenic travel and home cinematography.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127263473

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: 1930s 8mm scenic Lake Tahoe footage suited for documentary inserts about travel, western landscapes, family vacations, or archival nature views.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1938 visitor view of Lake Tahoe, with tall evergreens, open water, hazy hills, and snow-streaked mountains visible through early color home-movie rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a scenic overlook rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pine trees, blue lake water, distant wooded shoreline, hazy hills, snow-marked mountain ridges, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet landscape cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for Lake Tahoe and western vacation material.
Historical context: As archival home-movie footage, it reflects a private scenic travel record of Lake Tahoe rather than a documented public event or named landmark view.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1930s Lake Tahoe 8mm footage, vintage California lake travel film, pine forest mountain lake home movie, and early color scenic archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Lake Tahoe or California travel footage, then broader vintage mountain lake and pine forest scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing evergreens above blue lake water and distant hazy hills. — Evergreens frame a calm Lake Tahoe view with hills in the distance.

1938 Lake Tahoe frame with tall pines, open water, and softly rendered hills under a blue-purple film cast. — Tall pines stand above Lake Tahoe in a soft, blue-tinted home-movie view.

1938 Lake Tahoe scenic frame showing pines in the foreground, lake water below, and hazy hills across the shore. — A foreground pine partially obscures the lake and far shoreline.

1938 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame with dark pines and distant snow-marked mountain ridges. — Pines silhouette the view toward snow-streaked mountain ridges.

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