Bucks Lake California-1938: Dusty Road In Lake Tahoe

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationBucks Lake, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Bucks Lake California

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Dusty Road In Lake Tahoe — Clip Details

Dusty road in Bucks Lake, California, captured on 8mm film in 1938. The footage shows a rural dirt path with a cloud of dust kicked up by a vehicle, surrounded by trees and natural terrain. The scene has a strong purple color cast, typical of aged film, with visible grain and scratches. A title card appears, reading 'DUN ROAMIN' LAKE TAHOE F. Repp, Prop Elev. 6225', indicating the location and property owner. This vintage home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century California life.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127261527

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: Useful for 1930s California travel, rural-road, and Lake Tahoe-area archive requests needing brief home-movie atmosphere or a title-card location cue.
Period detail: The typed title card and 8mm home-movie look support a late-1930s reading, while the road view shows an unpaved mountain route with trees and dust.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, recording a dusty roadside moment and then holding on a title card rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dusty dirt road, surrounding trees, purple-tinted film, black frame borders, a typed title card, Lake Tahoe wording, elevation text, and the name F. Repp.
Film character: Aged 8mm texture is prominent, with heavy grain, scratches, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and a strong purple color shift across the road shot.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short travel insert, location-establishing transition, road-memory beat, or title-card bridge within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for recreational mountain travel and property naming in a home-movie record, without confirming the exact site beyond the card and metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but the title card names a property and person, so copyright, property, and identification review may still be needed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm California mountain road footage, Lake Tahoe title card home movie, dusty rural road archive, and Bucks Lake vintage travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then with 1938 Bucks Lake or Lake Tahoe material, then with rural roads, cabins, resorts, and California mountain recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 home-movie frame of a dusty rural road in the Bucks Lake or Lake Tahoe area, with trees and strong purple film fading. — A dusty road scene appears through purple-shifted 8mm film.

Title card for Dun Roamin, Lake Tahoe, showing the name F. Repp and elevation 6225 feet on a textured film background. — The title card identifies Dun Roamin at Lake Tahoe with elevation text.

Cropped 8mm title card repeats Dun Roamin and Lake Tahoe, with F. Repp and elevation text partly visible near the lower edge. — A closer cropped title card repeats the Lake Tahoe location text.

Held title-card frame for Dun Roamin, Lake Tahoe, with F. Repp and elevation 6225 feet visible on grainy 8mm film. — The title card remains on screen, showing the property name and elevation.

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