California USA-1938: Man Arriving With Goods Brought By A Mule In A Very Well

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 California

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Man Arriving With Goods Brought By A Mule In A Very Well — Clip Details

Black-and-white 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, in 1938, showing a man in a hat and uniform standing near a tent in a wooded campsite. He interacts with a mule loaded with supplies, guiding it as it carries goods through the camp. The scene captures a rustic outdoor setting with trees, grass, and a simple tent, conveying a sense of frontier life and self-sufficiency. The film exhibits natural grain, slight motion blur, and authentic vintage characteristics typical of amateur 8mm recordings from the era.

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: 121485762

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing rustic camp life, pack animal transport, or non-staged outdoor supply movement for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The hats, work clothing, canvas tent, mule tack, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s outdoor camp scene, with California and 1938 taken from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a casual observer filming a man managing a loaded mule at camp rather than a staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hat-wearing man, a mule with packs, a canvas tent, grassy ground, trees, rope or tack, and scattered camp material.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an amateur home movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or transition beat for rural travel, camp logistics, pack animals, or Depression-era outdoor self-reliance.
Historical context: The scene shows practical movement of supplies by mule in a wooded camp setting, offering social texture around outdoor labor and travel without proving a specific event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property questions should be assessed separately from the visible content.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 California 8mm camp footage, man with mule, pack animal supplies, black-and-white home movie, and rustic outdoor camp scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 California outdoor footage, then with broader themes of mule transport, camps, and rural labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 California home-movie footage, two men in hats stand in a wooded camp clearing with grass and scattered supplies visible. — Two men stand in a grassy wooded camp area near scattered supplies.

A hat-wearing man appears beside a packed mule in a wooded California camp setting, consistent with the 1938 home-movie metadata. — A man stands near a mule carrying camp supplies.

A mule with packs stands near a canvas tent in a wooded camp, with a man partly visible at the frame edge. — The loaded mule stands beside a tent at the campsite.

A packed mule moves across a grassy wooded camp area in black-and-white 8mm footage from the supplied 1938 California metadata. — The mule moves through the camp carrying supplies.

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