Bucks Lake California-1938: Farmer Steps Out Of His Lodge To Begin The Work Day

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

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Farmer Steps Out Of His Lodge To Begin The Work Day — Clip Details

BUCKS LAKE CALIFORNIA-1938: A man in a light-colored hat and suspenders steps out of a rustic wooden lodge onto a porch, beginning his workday. The scene, shot on 8mm film, features a vintage automobile parked nearby and a large white building in the background. The footage has a distinct purple-blue color cast, characteristic of aged home movies, with visible film grain and a static camera. The man walks down the steps, embodying a quiet moment of rural life in the 1930s.

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: 127261460

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: Useful for 1930s rural California sequences needing a brief home-movie view of a working man leaving a rustic lodge or worksite.
Period detail: The light hat, suspenders, wood porch railings, and nearby vintage automobile support a late-1930s rural setting, consistent with the Bucks Lake metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unposed movement as the man steps from the building and down the porch stairs in a quiet workday moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rustic wooden building, porch steps, railings, a light-hatted man, a parked vintage car, and a pale rectangular building facade.
Film character: The 8mm image carries strong purple-blue aging, soft focus, heavy grain, and static framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for rural labor, lodge life, or Depression-era California atmosphere.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for everyday rural work routines and small-site architecture without making claims beyond the visible home-movie scene.
Research note: A visible adult figure may require likeness review, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1938 8mm rural California, Bucks Lake home movie, farmer leaving lodge, vintage car near wooden porch, or workday steps.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Bucks Lake or 1938 California footage, then with rural work, lodge, and vintage automobile scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake frame with a dark vintage car near a rustic building and a pale rectangular wall or sign area. — A parked vintage automobile sits near the wooden lodge area.

At Bucks Lake in 1938, a man in a light hat and suspenders appears on or near the lodge porch steps. — The man appears at the porch, framed by railings and deep shadow.

The Bucks Lake home movie shows the hatted man moving down the wooden steps outside the rustic building. — The man descends the porch steps toward the work area.

In the final frame, the hatted man continues down the porch stairs in the 1938 Bucks Lake rural scene. — The figure moves lower on the steps, partly softened by the aged film color cast.

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