Bucks Lake California-1938: Man Wearing Grey Jacket Rows Boat In Lake On A Clear Day

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

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Man Wearing Grey Jacket Rows Boat In Lake On A Clear Day — Clip Details

A man in a grey jacket and cap rows a small wooden boat across the calm waters of Bucks Lake, California, in this 1938 8mm home movie. The footage captures him paddling steadily, with dense forested hills lining the shoreline under a clear sky. The film exhibits a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture characteristic of vintage Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful outdoor scene 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: 127260980

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: 1930s California home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet recreational lake scene with a man rowing a small boat.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s outdoor clothing, including a brimmed cap and plain jacket, with a simple wooden rowboat on a forested lake.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged rhythm of one man rowing steadily across calm water, seen from a casual home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone rower, small wooden boat, oars, calm lake surface, wooded shoreline, low hills, open sky, and dark film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld framing, and a strong purple-blue color shift that reads as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for travel, leisure, camping, or lakeside recreation sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a private outdoor leisure moment at Bucks Lake, showing small-boat recreation in a wooded Northern California setting.
Research note: A person is visible and likely identifiable only in broad form, so copyright, likeness, and location context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Bucks Lake 8mm home movie, man rowing boat, California lake recreation, and vintage forest shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Bucks Lake or 1938 California material, then broader boating, camping, and lake recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Bucks Lake, California, a man in a cap rows a small wooden boat across calm water in 1938 home-movie footage. — A man rows a small boat near the forested shoreline of Bucks Lake.

The rower leans forward with the oars in a small boat on Bucks Lake, with trees lining the background. — The rower pulls the oars while the boat moves across the lake.

A wider 1938 Bucks Lake view shows the rowboat at a distance, with dense trees and low hills across the water. — The boat is seen farther from camera against the wooded lakeshore.

The rowboat remains distant on Bucks Lake, framed by calm water, wooded hills, and the purple cast of the 8mm scan. — A distant boat crosses the lake beneath a wooded hillside.

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