Bucks Lake California-1938: Woman Cleans Fish At Pier

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

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Woman Cleans Fish At Pier — Clip Details

A woman in a floral dress and apron crouches barefoot on a wooden pier at Bucks Lake, California, in 1938, washing a freshly caught fish in the water. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a quiet, everyday moment with rich blue color tones and natural film grain. Her focused posture and the gentle ripples in the lake convey a sense of rural simplicity and domestic routine. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century life by the water.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127261081

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 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational edits needing a quiet lakeside fishing and domestic-routine moment in rural California.
Period detail: The clothing, wooden pier, simple fishing setup, and 8mm color home-movie texture support the supplied 1938 Bucks Lake setting without adding identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged household task as a barefoot woman crouches at the water's edge and rinses or cleans a freshly caught fish.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a floral skirt and apron, a wooden pier, dark blue lake water, a fish, small pier-side items, bare feet, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, slight blur, and contact-frame borders that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for fishing, lakeside labor, food preparation, or everyday 1930s family life.
Historical context: The scene shows recreational fishing or lakeside food preparation as a domestic activity, with no visible commercial setting or public event in the frames.
Research note: A person is visible and likely identifiable only in profile or from behind; copyright, likeness, and any location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm fishing footage, Bucks Lake California home movie, woman cleaning fish, wooden pier lake scene, and vintage lakeside domestic life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1938 Bucks Lake material, then with fishing, lake recreation, and domestic outdoor work scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Bucks Lake, California, in 1938, a woman in a floral skirt and apron crouches on a wooden pier while handling a fish at the water's edge. — A woman crouches on the pier and reaches toward the lake while cleaning or rinsing a fish.

The woman leans farther over the Bucks Lake pier, barefoot, with her hand and the fish close to the rippling water. — The woman leans over the pier, focused on the fish at the waterline.

A 1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame shows the woman crouched low on the pier, reaching down as the fish is rinsed near the lake surface. — She crouches close to the edge as the fish is worked in the water.

The final frame isolates the freshly caught fish in soft, blue-shifted 8mm footage, likely from the same Bucks Lake cleaning sequence. — A closer view shows the fish separated from the wider pier scene.

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