Bucks Lake California-1938: Sail Boat Crosses Lake Near Dam With Person Watching

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

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Sail Boat Crosses Lake Near Dam With Person Watching — 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 small sailboat crossing the calm, blue-tinted lake, with a forested shoreline in the background. A person stands on the shore, watching the boat pass near the dam. The scene is bathed in a distinct blue color cast, characteristic of aged film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century outdoor recreation and landscape.

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: 127260758

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 California lake recreation, dam-area landscape, or quiet archival cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie source and typed intertitle support a 1938 context, while the visible lake, dam edge, and wooded shore offer broad period landscape detail.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering on a sailboat crossing Bucks Lake and an intertitle that identifies the scenic subject rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-tinted lake water, a forested shoreline, a dark dam or shore edge, a tiny sailboat shape, film frame borders, and a typed title card.
Film character: The footage shows strong blue color shift, soft focus, grain, gate edges, and contact-sheet frame divisions that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape insert, location-establishing transition, memory beat, or visual bridge into water, recreation, or rural California material.
Historical context: The scene reflects outdoor leisure and scenic filming around a northern California lake without supporting broader claims about local development or dam history.
Research note: No identifiable people, brands, or interiors are visible here, but copyright, location, and any property or likeness questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake California, vintage sailboat on lake, dam reservoir home movie, blue-tinted lake footage, and 1930s California recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Bucks Lake shots, then other 1938 California lake or dam footage, then broader vintage boating and forested-water landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm view of Bucks Lake, California, with blue lake water, distant forest, and a dark foreground edge near the dam area. — Blue-tinted view across Bucks Lake toward a wooded shoreline.

Bucks Lake appears in a blue-shifted 8mm frame with wooded shoreline, open water, and a dark dam or shore edge in the lower frame. — Open water and forested shoreline at Bucks Lake.

Blue-tinted 1938 home-movie frame of Bucks Lake with calm water, distant trees, and a dark shoreline or dam edge in the foreground. — Calm lake surface with a dark foreground edge near the dam area.

Home-movie intertitle identifies views of Buck Lake, the dam, and surrounding country, with visible type and film wear. — Intertitle naming Buck Lake, the dam, and surrounding country.

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