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California USA-1938: Man Guiding Pack Donkey Through Mountain Meadow

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  • Year1938
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationCalifornia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1938 · California, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Man Guiding Pack Donkey Through Mountain Meadow — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1938 shows a man in a hat and suspenders guiding a pack donkey through a grassy mountain meadow. The donkey, laden with saddlebags, grazes while the man holds its lead rope. The black-and-white film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, edge damage, and natural outdoor lighting, capturing a quiet moment of rural life. Later frames reveal a second man in similar attire, suggesting a small group traveling through the wilderness. The footage offers authentic archival material for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
121485743

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors 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
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

  • donkey
  • three men
  • hat
  • bags
  • grass
  • mountain
  • three
  • man
  • carry
  • feed
  • people
  • california USA
  • 1938
  • 1938 California USA
  • vintage 8mm film
  • pack donkey
  • mountain travel
  • rural life 1930s
  • Super 8 home movie
  • man with hat
  • saddlebags
  • grassy meadow
  • archival footage
  • historical documentary
  • old film
  • black and white
  • outdoor adventure
  • vintage travel
  • 1930s Americana
  • pack animal
  • wilderness journey
  • classic film
  • nostalgic footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1930s California archive requests for rural travel, pack animals, mountain outings, and home-movie wilderness scenes in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail
The men's brimmed hats, suspenders, work trousers, lead rope, and pack saddle may show practical outdoor dress and mule or donkey packing in a late-1930s mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has unstaged value as men calmly handle a loaded donkey while it grazes, with the camera observing a small outdoor task rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include three adult men, a saddled pack donkey, lead rope, grass, trees, a dirt path, scattered branches, and strong daylight.
Film character
Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, contact-sheet framing, and uneven exposure typical of outdoor home-movie filming.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for rural travel, mountain packing, Depression-era leisure, or California wilderness sequences.
Historical context
The scene visually places people and a pack animal in a grassy mountain environment, suggesting small-scale travel or recreation without confirming a specific route or event.
Research note
Adult faces are visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location-related permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1938 California 8mm pack donkey, 1930s mountain meadow home movie, men with donkey, and vintage wilderness travel footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1938 California outdoor scenes, then broader 1930s rural travel, pack animal, and mountain recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California home-movie frame showing an adult man guiding a loaded donkey through a grassy mountain meadow.

A man stands with a lead rope as a pack donkey grazes beside low meadow brush.

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Adult man in outdoor clothing holds a rope near a saddled donkey in a California mountain meadow, 1938 metadata supported.

The pack donkey keeps grazing while the man holds the rope at a short distance.

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Black-and-white 8mm frame of a man and pack donkey in a grassy California mountain setting, with trees in the background.

The man remains beside the lead rope as the packed donkey stands near meadow brush.

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Later 1938 California frame showing two adult men in hats and suspenders standing in the same outdoor meadow area.

Two men appear in the meadow, one holding an object near scattered branches while the other stands nearby.

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