Bucks Lake California-1938: View Of Blue Lake Water And Trees On A Clear Day

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationBucks Lake, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Bucks Lake California

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View Of Blue Lake Water And Trees On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Bucks Lake in California. The footage, bathed in a striking blue monochrome tint, shows calm lake waters reflecting a dense forested shoreline. A prominent dead tree trunk stands in the foreground, gradually moving across the frame as the camera pans slowly to the right. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, timeless quality of early 20th-century amateur filmmaking.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260656

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: Bucks Lake, 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: This 1938 8mm home-movie clip fits archival requests for Depression-era California lake scenery, nature inserts, and quiet documentary transitions.
Period detail: The frame may show prewar amateur color-tinted 8mm travel footage, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signs, or dateable man-made features.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan across still water and shoreline reads as an unstaged visitor view, recording a scenic pause rather than a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-tinted lake water, a forested far shore, bare tree trunks, soft reflections, dark frame edges, and light film wear.
Film character: The clip has dense blue monochrome tint, soft focus, 8mm grain, mild exposure variation, and handheld pan movement characteristic of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, reflective cutaway, landscape transition, or memory beat within a regional or outdoor sequence.
Historical context: As home-movie footage from Bucks Lake, it offers visual context for recreational landscape viewing without supporting claims about specific events or land use.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s 8mm California lake footage, Bucks Lake home movie, blue-tinted forest shoreline, and vintage outdoor water view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake or 1938 California footage, then broader vintage lake and forest scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing blue lake water, distant trees, and a bare foreground trunk during a slow pan. — Blue-tinted view across Bucks Lake toward a wooded shoreline.

Bucks Lake, California, in 1938, with calm blue-tinted water, a forested shoreline, and a dead foreground tree trunk. — A dead trunk stands near the edge of the blue-tinted lake view.

The pan places a pale bare trunk near center, with Bucks Lake water and dense shoreline trees behind it. — The foreground trunk crosses the lake view as the camera pans.

Late frame from the 1938 Bucks Lake pan showing blue-tinted water, shoreline trees, bare trunks, and dark branches at right. — Bare trunks and right-edge branches frame the lake and wooded shore.

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