Bucks Lake California-1938: Virgin Nature Mountain Blue Lake Green Pine Trees

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

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Virgin Nature Mountain Blue Lake Green Pine Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Bucks Lake, California, with its calm blue waters framed by tall pine trees and forested mountains. The footage, marked by the distinct blue tint of early color film, shows a slow pan across the lake, revealing a quiet natural landscape. A utility pole briefly enters the frame, grounding the scene in a mid-20th century setting. The grainy texture and color shifts are characteristic of archival Super 8 footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a pristine wilderness.

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: 127260702

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: Useful for 1930s documentary edits needing quiet 8mm home-movie footage of a mountain lake landscape in northern California.
Period detail: The 1938 date is supported by metadata, while the visible scene itself shows a rural lakeshore, pine forest, distant ridges, and a utility pole or similar vertical structure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor's calm, unstaged view across the water, valuing scenery over action or posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, pine trunks, wooded hills, distant shoreline, sky, film frame edges, and a brief utility pole-like vertical form.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, blue color cast, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, reflective transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for Bucks Lake or mountain recreation themes.
Historical context: The footage visually places outdoor leisure and landscape observation within a prewar home-movie context without showing people, vehicles, or named facilities.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private interiors are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, vintage California mountain lake scenery, blue-tinted home movies, pine forest lake views, and prewar outdoor travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake or camping footage, then with 1938 Bucks Lake material, then with vintage California mountain landscape and forest-water themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing blue water, pine trunks, a distant forested ridge, and dark film-frame edges. — Pine trunks frame a blue mountain lake and wooded far shore.

1938 Bucks Lake frame with calm blue water, foreground pine trunks, distant wooded hills, and a small dark film mark or debris spot. — A still view across Bucks Lake toward wooded hills, interrupted by foreground trunks.

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing open water, a distant tree-covered shoreline, low hills, and visible 8mm frame boundaries. — The camera opens onto a broad expanse of lake and a wooded ridge line.

1938 Bucks Lake frame showing a wide blue lake, distant forested hills, shoreline detail, and strong dark borders from the film scan. — A wide lake view holds on the distant forested shoreline and low mountain ridge.

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