Bucks Lake California-1938: A Lady Stacking Laundry Outside A Tent

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

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A Lady Stacking Laundry Outside A Tent — Clip Details

A woman in a patterned dress stands at the entrance of a makeshift tent in a wooded area, sorting laundry under a purple-tinted 8mm film filter. The scene, shot in Bucks Lake, California in 1938, captures a quiet moment of domestic life during a camping trip. She smiles briefly before bending to gather clothes, her movements natural and unposed. The film shows characteristic grain and color shifts typical of vintage Super 8 footage, with trees and a clothesline visible in the background. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century outdoor living.

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: 127261230

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 Bucks Lake camping footage for productions needing domestic outdoor-life details, women at camp, or quiet home-movie inserts from prewar California recreation.
Period detail: The patterned dress, simple tent shelter, hanging cloth, and hand-sorted laundry may show late-1930s camping routines and informal outdoor clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The woman smiles toward the camera, then bends to handle laundry, giving the clip an unstaged family-camp moment rather than a posed travel view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a patterned dress, a dark tent opening, hanging laundry, a tree trunk, shaded ground, cloth bundles, and wooded background.
Film character: The 8mm scan has strong purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that signal original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, domestic routine insert, camping transition, or memory beat within a family travel or outdoor recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene places ordinary laundry work inside a campsite setting, showing how domestic chores continued during leisure travel without making broader social claims.
Research note: A visible adult face and likeness should be reviewed for use; no logos, children, or clear private property are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm camping laundry, Bucks Lake home movie, woman outside tent, vintage California campsite, and outdoor domestic chores.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake 1938 camping footage, then broader 1930s home-movie scenes of tents, chores, and leisure travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

At a Bucks Lake campsite in 1938, a woman stands partly obscured beside a tree and tent while cloth hangs near the shelter. — A woman stands partly behind a tree at the entrance of a makeshift tent.

A woman in a patterned dress smiles toward the camera outside a tent at Bucks Lake, with laundry and trees around the campsite. — The woman smiles from the entrance of the tent in the wooded campsite.

The woman bends down outside the makeshift tent at Bucks Lake, handling light-colored laundry beside the tree and shaded shelter. — The woman bends to pick up or sort laundry at the tent entrance.

Near the end of the clip, the woman leans into the tent area, continuing to arrange laundry in the wooded Bucks Lake campsite. — The woman leans into the tent area while continuing the laundry task.

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