Bucks Lake California-1938: A Man Rowing A Boat On A Calm Lake

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

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A Man Rowing A Boat On A Calm Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a man rowing a small wooden boat across the calm waters of Bucks Lake, California. The footage, tinted with a deep purple hue typical of aged color film, shows the man in a flat cap and dark jacket paddling steadily. A dense forest lines the distant shore under a muted sky, creating a serene, isolated atmosphere. The handheld camera follows the boat’s gentle movement, preserving a quiet moment of solitude and recreation from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260958

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 recreation, lake travel, and home-movie leisure sequences needing a quiet boating insert or rural outdoor cutaway.
Period detail: The flat cap, small wooden rowboat, and 8mm home-movie framing support a late-1930s recreational setting, with Bucks Lake and 1938 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged-looking moment of one man rowing steadily past the camera, emphasizing ordinary leisure rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone rower, narrow wooden boat, oar strokes, calm lake water, distant forested shoreline, muted sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has strong 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld framing that give it recognizable physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a peaceful insert, travel transition, memory beat, or visual bridge for rural recreation and lakeside solitude.
Historical context: The scene suggests small-scale outdoor leisure at a forested California lake, without visible signs, landmarks, or events that would identify a broader public occasion.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and location/property questions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, vintage California boating, man rowing on lake, 1930s home movie recreation, and forest lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Bucks Lake material, then with other 1938 California lake scenes, then with vintage boating or outdoor recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A man rows a narrow wooden boat across Bucks Lake, California, in 1938 home-movie footage with purple-tinted 8mm film color. — A lone rower moves across calm water with the wooded lakeshore in the distance.

The rower passes through frame in a low wooden boat on Bucks Lake, with a dark tree line and aged purple 8mm color visible. — The boat glides sideways across the frame as the man pulls an oar.

A 1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame shows the rower leaning into a stroke, with calm water and forested shoreline behind him. — The rower bends forward during an oar stroke in the small boat.

The final frame shows the man seated in the rowboat on Bucks Lake, holding the oar as the aged 8mm image darkens around the gate edges. — The man pauses or resets his stroke while seated low in the boat.

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