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

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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 Mountain Lake And Trees On A Clear — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Bucks Lake in California. The footage features a calm blue lake surrounded by evergreen trees and distant mountains, with several dead tree trunks standing in the water. The entire scene is bathed in a distinctive blue tint, likely due to the film stock or lighting conditions of the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse of a natural landscape from the late 1930s.

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: 127260681

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s home-movie requests needing a quiet California mountain-lake landscape insert or natural-history cutaway.
Period detail: The 8mm format, blue-tinted color cast, soft focus, and static framing may show late-1930s amateur travel filming rather than a staged scenic view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds on the lake from a visitor's shoreline viewpoint, valuing the remembered scene more than action or composition changes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, evergreen shoreline, distant wooded hills, pale dead trunks, dark tree silhouettes, and a strong blue film tint.
Film character: The footage has dense blue color, soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give the landscape a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic cutaway, memory beat, transition into an outdoor sequence, or quiet establishing insert for Bucks Lake.
Historical context: The view documents recreational attention to a mountain lake landscape, with no people, vehicles, buildings, or commercial activity visible in the sampled frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still verify copyright, location identification, and any property or land-use context for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, blue-tinted mountain lake home movie, California evergreen shoreline, and vintage outdoor landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel outdoor scenes, then other 1938 Bucks Lake or California mountain footage, then broader vintage lake and evergreen landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing calm blue water, forested shore, and dead tree trunks in a soft 8mm scan. — Blue-tinted view across Bucks Lake with trees and pale standing trunks.

Bucks Lake, California, seen through tree trunks in a blue-tinted 1938 8mm home-movie frame. — Lake water and forested shoreline framed by trunks in blue 8mm footage.

Soft 8mm frame of Bucks Lake with blue water, distant trees, and pale dead trunks near the shore. — Distant shoreline and standing trunks over a calm blue lake surface.

Late-1930s Bucks Lake frame showing calm water, foreground evergreens, and a wooded far shore in blue-tinted 8mm film. — Foreground evergreens stand against the blue lake and distant forest.

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