Bucks Lake California-1938: View Of Sierra Film Sign With Blue Lake Water And Mountains

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

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View Of Sierra Film Sign With Blue Lake Water And Mountains — Clip Details

Bucks Lake California-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene lake view with deep blue water and forested mountains under a twilight sky. The film shows natural grain and color shifts typical of early 1930s Super 8 footage. A title card appears, reading 'LOGGING IN THE SIERRAS,' confirming the location and era. The scene evokes nostalgia and historical Americana, ideal for documentaries, archival projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 127261491

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 California mountain-lake and title-card footage for documentary inserts about Sierra landscapes, logging themes, or home-movie travel records.
Period detail: The title card reading "LOGGING IN THE SIERRAS" and the 8mm color lake view support a late-1930s home-movie context without identifying a specific landmark beyond the supplied Bucks Lake metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, shifting from a quiet lakeshore view to a filmed title card that frames the reel as a personal travel or subject record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, forested mountain slopes, dark film-frame edges, a twilight-toned sky, textured title-card background, and white block lettering.
Film character: The footage shows visible 8mm grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue and purple, slight exposure variation, and gate edges that give the scan clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, chapter transition, title-card cutaway, or memory beat before material related to Sierra landscapes or logging.
Historical context: The images place a personal camera at a California mountain lake and use an intertitle to introduce logging in the Sierras, but they do not show logging activity in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm Bucks Lake footage, California Sierra lake home movie, logging in the Sierras title card, and vintage mountain lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake or 1938 California material, then broader Sierra landscape, logging, and vintage travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing blue water, distant wooded hills, twilight sky, and visible film gate edges. — Blue lake and forested Sierra slopes seen through a soft 8mm frame.

1938 Bucks Lake view with deep blue water, wooded mountain ridges, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Distant wooded hills and lake water framed by dark film edges.

8mm title card for the Bucks Lake reel, with white block lettering reading LOGGING IN THE SIERRAS against a mottled dark background. — Title card introduces the subject as "LOGGING IN THE SIERRAS."

Late-1930s 8mm title-card frame showing the words LOGGING IN THE SIERRAS in white lettering with visible grain and frame edges. — Second title-card frame with the same logging-in-the-Sierras wording.

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