Lake Tahoe California-1938: White Lodge with American Flag

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 · Lake Tahoe, California, United States

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White Lodge with American Flag — 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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