Bucks Lake California-1938: Purple Color Video Of Tree

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Purple Color Video Of Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this clip captures a tall pine tree silhouetted against a vivid purple sky at Bucks Lake, California. The entire frame is bathed in an intense, unnatural purple hue, likely due to a color filter or film anomaly, creating a surreal and dreamlike atmosphere. The camera remains steady, focusing on the tree's dense branches and foliage, with visible film grain and slight motion blur characteristic of vintage home movie footage. This rare archival clip offers a mysterious, nostalgic glimpse of a natural landscape rendered in an otherworldly color palette.

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: 127261001

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 archival requests needing a brief natural landscape insert, abstract color texture, or atmospheric home-movie cutaway from Bucks Lake, California.
Period detail: The frames show no dated objects or human activity, so the 1938 period context comes from clip metadata rather than visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an amateur home-movie eye lingering on treetops and sky, valuing mood, color, and place over staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include silhouetted pine branches, a purple-blue sky, dark film-frame borders, a central contact-sheet divider, grain, dust specks, and slight blur.
Film character: The footage has a strong purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, edge vignetting, and minor dirt consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, memory beat, nature cutaway, or abstract color bridge in a sequence about California travel or vintage landscapes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip shows a rural lake-area landscape rendered through home-movie film color and exposure rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location claims, and any production-specific context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, vintage California pine tree, purple sky home movie, and abstract archival nature texture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake 1938 material, then broader 1930s California nature or color-anomaly footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A pine tree silhouette fills the upper-left frame against a purple-blue sky in Bucks Lake archival 8mm footage. — Pine branches appear as a dark silhouette against the purple-tinted sky.

A tall pine crown stands dark against the purple cast of the Bucks Lake sky in this 1938 home-movie frame. — The pine crown is centered against a saturated purple sky.

A softly blurred pine tree rises through the frame, with dark branches set against the purple Bucks Lake sky. — Soft focus and grain give the pine silhouette a diffuse home-movie texture.

The top of a pine tree leans across the lower-right frame beneath a purple-tinted sky in the Bucks Lake clip. — A pine top cuts diagonally through the purple sky near the end of the clip.

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