Bucks Lake California-1938: Black And White Footage Of Trees And Leaves Panning

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

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Black And White Footage Of Trees And Leaves Panning — Clip Details

BUCKS LAKE CALIFORNIA-1938: Black and white 8mm home movie footage captures a slow pan across a dense forest. The image, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows dark evergreen trees against a lighter, textured background of forest floor or rock. The film exhibits significant grain, a purple color cast, and soft focus, characteristic of early 1930s home movies. The camera moves steadily, revealing the natural landscape in a nostalgic, archival style.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260854

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 home-movie forest footage from Bucks Lake, California, suited to documentary cutaways, nature inserts, and archival travel or family-memory sequences.
Period detail: The visible period evidence comes mainly from the 8mm home-movie format, monochrome/purple-tinted scan, soft focus, and simple handheld pan rather than identifiable built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on trees and leaf-covered ground without people, signage, or composed scenic framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark evergreen trunks, dense foliage, leaf texture, pale forest floor or rock, heavy film grain, frame borders, and a slow lateral pan.
Film character: The footage shows coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, purple cast from the scan, and slight handheld movement that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature cutaway, transitional memory beat, or establishing insert for a 1930s California mountain or lake-area sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a wooded outdoor setting near Bucks Lake as seen by a home-movie camera, with no visible people, structures, vehicles, or landmarks to identify.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private structures are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property considerations should be verified separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm forest pan, Bucks Lake California home movie, 1930s wooded landscape, and vintage trees and leaves footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Bucks Lake material, then broader 1930s California outdoor or forest home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Bucks Lake, California 1938 home-movie frame showing dark evergreens against pale forest texture during a slow pan. — Evergreen trunks and dense forest texture fill the opening frame.

1938 Bucks Lake forest view with dark trees along the edge and a pale, leafy background on vintage 8mm film. — The pan moves across dense leaves and shadowed evergreen forms.

Bucks Lake 1938 home-movie frame showing pale forest texture and a slender dark branch or sapling in soft focus. — Pale forest detail and a thin branch dominate the later pan frame.

Final 1938 Bucks Lake frame with pale wooded texture, a narrow dark sapling or branch, and visible 8mm grain. — A slender dark branch stands out against the pale wooded background.

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