Bucks Lake California-1938: A Boat Sailing On The Lake With Forested Shoreline

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

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A Boat Sailing On The Lake With Forested Shoreline — Clip Details

BUCKS LAKE CALIFORNIA-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene, blue-tinted view of Bucks Lake, with a small boat sailing across the calm water. The distant shoreline is lined with dense evergreen trees under a hazy sky. The footage, shot through a window frame, shows natural film grain and a distinct color cast typical of early 1930s home movies. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a peaceful lakeside moment from the past.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260746

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: 1938 8mm lakeside footage suited for documentary inserts about California recreation, mountain travel, or quiet prewar home-movie landscapes.
Period detail: The blue-tinted 8mm frame may show a late-1930s home-movie view, with no visible cars, signage, clothing, or architecture to further date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The shot has a visitor-observation quality, filmed from behind a dark window or railing while a small boat moves across the lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a distant forested shoreline, hazy hills, a small boat, dark foreground framing, and film-edge shadows.
Film character: The footage carries dense blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure unevenness, and dark contact-sheet framing from the scanned 8mm source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, or transition between travel, lake recreation, and rural California landscape material.
Historical context: The scene records Bucks Lake as a recreational natural setting, emphasizing water, forest, and distance rather than identifiable people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location-specific permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s 8mm Bucks Lake footage, vintage California lake boat, home movie forest shoreline, and prewar lake recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Bucks Lake or 1938 California scenes, then broader vintage boating and mountain-lake home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing a small boat on calm blue water below a distant evergreen shoreline. — A small boat crosses Bucks Lake beneath a distant forested shore, seen through dark foreground framing.

Bucks Lake, California, in 1938, with a tiny boat on blue water and evergreen shoreline beyond. — The boat appears near mid-lake, with the forested shore forming a soft band across the background.

Vintage 8mm view of a small boat on Bucks Lake, framed by dark foreground edges and a wooded shoreline. — A small boat remains visible against the blue lake surface, with trees lining the far shore.

Late-1930s Bucks Lake frame with a small boat crossing calm water under a hazy forested horizon. — The final frame holds on the boat and distant shore, with the foreground edge cutting across the lower frame.

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