Bucks Lake California-1938: Vintage Video Of A Lady Washing Clothes On The Rocky Shore

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

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Vintage Video Of A Lady Washing Clothes On The Rocky Shore — Clip Details

A woman in a floral dress and light jacket washes clothes on a wooden bench at the rocky shore of Bucks Lake, California, in 1938. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her scrubbing and wringing out garments by hand as waves lap against the shore. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple-blue tint, characteristic of aged home movie film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. Her bare feet rest near the water’s edge, and the natural, unposed moment reflects everyday life in the late 1930s. This authentic vintage home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into domestic routines of the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 127261067

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 home-movie requests needing everyday domestic activity at a lakeshore for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The clothing, hand washing, wooden bench, and 8mm home-movie color shift support a late-1930s domestic outdoor scene, with Bucks Lake and 1938 taken from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears unposed as she bends, rinses, wrings, and handles laundry at the water's edge, giving the clip quiet observational home-movie value.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a woman in a floral skirt and light jacket, a wooden bench or dock edge, cloth in her hands, bare feet, rippling lake water, rocks, and dark film borders.
Film character: The scan has visible 8mm grain, purple-blue aging, soft focus, handheld framing, and slight motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, domestic-routine insert, lakeside memory beat, or transition within a sequence about rural leisure or everyday work.
Historical context: The footage visually places household labor in an outdoor recreational or lakeside setting, showing a practical routine rather than a staged public event.
Research note: A woman's face is partly visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, minors, or private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from appearance rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Bucks Lake home movie, 1930s California lakeshore laundry, woman washing clothes by hand, vintage 8mm domestic routine, and rocky shore footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1938 Bucks Lake or California lake footage, then with 1930s domestic chores, camping, or shoreline life.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Bucks Lake in 1938, a woman in a floral skirt and light jacket sits by rippling water while handling laundry on a wooden bench or dock edge. — Woman holds a piece of cloth while seated at the rocky lakeshore.

The woman glances back toward the camera as she rinses or wrings cloth at the Bucks Lake shore, with blue-purple aged 8mm color visible. — The woman looks back briefly while working with laundry near the water.

The woman leans forward from the bench or dock edge, lowering laundry toward the lake water along the rocky Bucks Lake shoreline. — Woman bends forward to rinse cloth at the water's edge.

Near the end of the clip, the woman crouches over the Bucks Lake shoreline, reaching down toward the water with laundry beside her. — Woman crouches close to the shore while continuing to wash clothing.

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