Lake Tahoe California-1938: View Of Snow Covered Trees On A Cloudy Winter Day

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Lake Tahoe California

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View Of Snow Covered Trees On A Cloudy Winter Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene winter landscape at Lake Tahoe, California. A tall evergreen tree stands in the foreground, silhouetted against snow-capped mountains under a cloudy sky. The entire scene is bathed in a striking purple-blue tint, a common characteristic of early color film processes. The footage exhibits natural film grain and subtle camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the Sierra Nevada wilderness during a cold, overcast day.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127263512

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 home-movie requests needing a quiet Lake Tahoe winter landscape, Sierra Nevada mountain view, or vintage nature cutaway for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm frame texture, strong blue-purple color shift, and simple scenic framing support the 1938 home-movie attribution while showing no modern structures or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged traveler or family-film perspective, holding briefly on snowy mountains and evergreen trees rather than a composed commercial scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-dusted mountain ridges, tall conifer silhouettes, hazy wooded slopes, winter brush, pale sky, soft focus, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, blue-purple color drift, slight blur, and gentle camera instability that read as physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, memory beat, landscape transition, or quiet cutaway between travel, mountain, or 1930s California sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a visitor-level view of Lake Tahoe's mountain environment in winter, emphasizing landscape and weather rather than identifiable public events or people.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private structures are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any location-specific use concerns for their project.
Research search match: Researcher searches it may satisfy include 1938 Lake Tahoe 8mm home movie, vintage Sierra Nevada winter landscape, snow-covered trees, and early color mountain footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 Lake Tahoe material, and then with broader winter mountain, California travel, or vintage nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a silhouetted evergreen before snow-dusted Sierra Nevada mountains under a pale sky. — Evergreen silhouette and snow-streaked mountains in a blue-purple winter landscape.

Lake Tahoe winter view from 1938 8mm footage, with a tall conifer silhouetted against snowy mountain ridges. — A centered conifer stands against distant snow-marked mountain slopes.

1938 Lake Tahoe frame showing hazy mountain layers, foreground brush, and a soft blue-purple 8mm home-movie color cast. — Hazy mountain slopes and winter brush appear through soft blue-purple film color.

Lake Tahoe winter landscape in 1938 8mm footage, with layered mountain ridges, wooded slopes, and blurred foreground vegetation. — Layered mountain ridges recede behind blurred brush and wooded winter slopes.

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