Bucks Lake California-1938: Deep Blue Lake Surrounded By Forested Mountains

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

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Deep Blue Lake Surrounded By Forested Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Bucks Lake in California. The footage shows a vast, deep blue lake surrounded by forested mountains under a clear sky. The image has a distinct blue color cast typical of early color film, with visible grain and slight camera shake. The perspective suggests a slow pan across the water, offering a nostalgic glimpse of natural beauty from the late 1930s.

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: 127260714

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: 1930s 8mm California lake footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, nature transitions, or quiet archival atmosphere.
Period detail: The blue-heavy color, rounded frame edges, and handheld pan may show early color home-movie practice rather than identifiable built-era details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot viewpoint across open water and forested hills, valued for its unstaged observation of a scenic place.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, wooded shoreline, dark mountain ridges, pale sky, film gate edges, and light surface haze.
Film character: The footage carries dense blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight jitter, and gate shadows that give it clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic cutaway, location-establishing insert, reflective pause, or transition into outdoor memory material.
Historical context: The view documents recreational landscape imagery from a private 1938 home movie without showing people, buildings, roads, or named landmarks in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake California, vintage blue lake home movie, forested mountain lake footage, and 1930s California nature.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 Bucks Lake material, then with California lakes, forests, and mountain scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing deep blue water, distant wooded shoreline, and dark mountain ridges. — A blue lake stretches toward a forested mountain shoreline.

1938 Bucks Lake view across open blue water toward forested hills and a narrow shoreline point. — Open water fills the frame below distant wooded hills.

Blue-cast 1938 Bucks Lake frame with lake water in front of a dark forested mountain slope. — The pan reaches a wooded slope descending toward the lake.

Late frame from the 1938 Bucks Lake pan showing blue water, tree-lined shore, and a dark mountain ridge. — Blue water meets a dark tree-lined shore beneath the ridge.

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