Angora Lakes California-1938: Picture Of A Beautiful Clear And Transparent Lake

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationAngora Lakes, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Angora Lakes California

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Picture Of A Beautiful Clear And Transparent Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Angora Lakes in California. The clip features a calm, clear lake reflecting the surrounding pine trees and rustic cabins along the shoreline. The entire scene is bathed in a distinctive blue-purple color cast, characteristic of early color film processes. The image is grainy and slightly soft, with visible film edges, conveying a nostalgic, archival quality. This footage offers a peaceful glimpse into a mid-20th century natural landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260166

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: Angora Lakes, 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: Supports 1930s California outdoor and recreation archive requests needing quiet home-movie lake scenery for documentary, museum, education or period atmosphere use.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, lakeside cabins and pine shoreline may show a late-1930s mountain resort setting at Angora Lakes, California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a simple visitor-shot view across the water, valuing the stillness of the lake and shoreline rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, pine trees, rocky shoreline, small cabins, reflections, film-frame edges and a strong blue-purple color cast.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, contact-frame borders and a pronounced blue-purple cast from the scanned film source.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a quiet scenic insert, location establishing shot, reflective transition or memory beat within travel, nature or family-history sequences.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for prewar leisure travel and mountain-lake scenery without making claims beyond the visible shoreline, cabins and metadata location.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location permissions for their specific use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 8mm Angora Lakes footage, vintage California lake home movie, 1930s mountain cabin shoreline and clear lake pine trees.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Angora Lakes or 1938 California material, then broader vintage mountain-lake and home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm view of Angora Lakes with still blue water, pine trees, rocks and small shoreline cabins. — A calm lake reflects the wooded shoreline and cabins at Angora Lakes.

Angora Lakes shoreline seen across calm water, with pine forest, rocks and small cabins in soft 8mm color. — The camera looks across still water toward a pine-lined cabin shore.

Vintage Angora Lakes frame showing blue-toned water, pine trees and rustic cabins along the far shore. — A blue-toned home-movie frame shows cabins tucked among trees by the lake.

Final 8mm still of Angora Lakes with calm foreground water, distant pines, rocks and small cabins. — The shot continues across quiet lake water toward the wooded shoreline.

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