Bucks Lake California-1938: Views Of Buck Lake Dam, And Surrounding Country, 'N The Volga Boatmen.

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

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Views Of Buck Lake Dam, And Surrounding Country, 'N The... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie title card from 1938, displaying white text on a dark, grainy background. The text reads 'VIEWS OF BUCK LAKE DAM, AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY, 'N THE VOLGA BOATMEN.' The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, natural film grain, and a slightly uneven projection effect. This archival clip captures a nostalgic moment of early 20th-century American life, likely documenting a family vacation or local community event near Bucks Lake, California.

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: 127260768

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 California home-movie projects needing a title-card insert for Bucks Lake Dam, lake-country travel, or amateur vacation footage.
Period detail: The typed title card and 8mm source support a 1938 home-movie context, with no people, vehicles, or landscape details visible in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot home-movie practice of labeling a reel segment before views of a lake dam, surrounding country, and a boating-related scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white block lettering, a dark textured title-card background, soft projected edges, film grain, frame jitter, and repeated contact-sheet frames.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm look with visible grain, mild blur, uneven exposure, and projection-like instability that reads as physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing title insert, reel divider, or memory beat before Bucks Lake scenery or 1930s vacation material.
Historical context: The title card situates the reel around Bucks Lake, California, and may introduce recreational or local landscape footage without showing the actual dam in this excerpt.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated here, but copyright status and any later property or location rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake title card, California lake dam home movie, and Volga Boatmen amateur film reel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Bucks Lake or 1938 California footage, then broader 1930s lake, dam, boating, or vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm title card for Bucks Lake Dam and surrounding country, shown as white lettering on a dark textured background. — Title card reading “Views of Buck Lake Dam, and surrounding country, ’n the Volga Boatmen.”

Bucks Lake, California title card remains on screen with soft white lettering and visible 8mm grain. — The title card remains steady, introducing Bucks Lake Dam and surrounding country.

Archival 8mm title frame naming Bucks Lake Dam, surrounding country, and the Volga Boatmen segment. — A later frame of the same title card, with grain and soft projection visible.

Final sampled frame of the 1938 Bucks Lake title card, with the same white text and soft 8mm film texture. — The title card continues through the end of the sampled clip segment.

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