Bucks Lake California-1938: Lone Rower On A Serene Lake Amid Forested Wilderness

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

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Lone Rower On A Serene Lake Amid Forested Wilderness — Clip Details

BUCKS LAKE CALIFORNIA-1938: A lone figure rows a small boat across the calm, deep blue waters of Bucks Lake, surrounded by a dense forest of evergreen trees. The 8mm film captures the serene, untouched wilderness with a distinct purple-blue color cast, characteristic of early color film. The quiet, contemplative scene evokes a sense of peaceful solitude in the California wilderness, with the still water reflecting the overcast sky. This authentic home movie footage offers a rare glimpse into mid-20th century outdoor recreation and natural beauty.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127261019

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 lake footage suited for documentary inserts about outdoor recreation, rural travel, or quiet wilderness leisure.
Period detail: The small rowboat, distant lone figure, and hand-filmed lake view may show Depression-era recreational travel without visible modern shoreline development.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor watching a rower move across the lake from a fixed lakeside viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat, a distant rower, calm lake water, evergreen shoreline, wooded hills, pale sky, and a foreground tree trunk.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight gate framing, and a purple-blue color cast that situates it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet nature cutaway, reflective transition, or memory beat between travel, camping, or regional history scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually documents lakeside leisure and forested California landscape from an amateur home-movie perspective, with no identifiable event shown.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Bucks Lake home movie, California lake rowboat footage, vintage 8mm wilderness recreation, and forest lake boating.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Bucks Lake or California 1938 footage, then with vintage lake, boating, camping, or wilderness recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Bucks Lake, California, a distant rower sits in a small boat near the edge of a calm, forest-lined lake. — A lone rower moves near the lakeshore under a pale sky.

A fixed lakeside view at Bucks Lake shows blue water, a forested far shore, low hills, and a foreground tree trunk. — The camera holds on the lake and wooded opposite shore.

The Bucks Lake view continues with a tree trunk in the foreground, still water, and dense evergreen trees across the shore. — A foreground tree frames the quiet lake and forested bank.

A late frame shows Bucks Lake in blue-purple color, with a tall tree trunk, distant evergreens, and low hills beyond the water. — The lake surface and distant forest fill the final view.

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