Lake Tahoe California-1938: Little White Lodge With The Flag Of The United

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

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Little White Lodge With The Flag Of The United — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1938 captures a small white lodge at Lake Tahoe, California, with an American flag waving in the wind against a clear blue sky. The structure features a covered porch and a peaked roof, surrounded by tall pine trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including a distinct blue color cast, slight grain, and subtle camera shake, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century Americana atmosphere.

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: 127263586

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 Lake Tahoe home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational requests needing a quiet lakeside lodge exterior with a U.S. flag.
Period detail: The small white lodge, simple porch railings, flagpole, and tall pines support the supplied 1938 Lake Tahoe setting without identifying a specific property.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor's outdoor viewpoint, letting the flag movement and slight handheld framing carry the unstaged vacation-record quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white lodge with peaked roof, covered porch, railings, flagpole, American flag, blue sky, pine trees, and partial adjacent structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows blue color cast, soft focus, light grain, gate edges, frame jitter, and exposure variations that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, regional transition, or memory beat for lakeside travel, Americana, or prewar vacation material.
Historical context: The view reflects a modest recreational built environment at Lake Tahoe, with national symbolism and mountain-resort architecture visible in the same frame.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but the lodge may involve property or location identification review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Good matches include 1938 8mm Lake Tahoe lodge exterior, American flag at mountain resort, vintage California vacation footage, and 1930s home movie cabin view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Lake Tahoe exteriors, then broader 1930s California travel or flag-and-lodge footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame showing a small white lodge, porch railings, American flag, clear sky, and tall pines. — A small white lodge stands beneath an American flag with pine trees behind it.

Lake Tahoe lodge exterior in 1938 footage, with the American flag raised above the porch and dark pine trees behind. — The flag flies over the lodge porch in a steady visitor-shot view.

1938 Lake Tahoe frame with the flagpole centered near the white lodge roof, porch shadows, railings, and pine trees. — The camera frames the flagpole beside the lodge roof and shaded porch.

Late shot of the 1938 Lake Tahoe lodge exterior, showing the American flag, white porch structure, peaked roof, and pines. — The flag continues to wave above the small white lodge and surrounding trees.

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