Bucks Lake California-1938: The View Of The Side Of The House With A Chimney

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

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The View Of The Side Of The House With A Chimney — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a rustic log cabin nestled in the woods of Bucks Lake, California. The camera slowly pans across the side of the house, highlighting its stone chimney and wooden siding, surrounded by tall pine trees under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct purple tint, characteristic of early color film. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere, perfect for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

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: 127261590

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 home-movie exterior useful for documentary or period cutaways needing a quiet wooded cabin view in Northern California.
Period detail: The steep roof, stone chimney, wood siding, tall pines, and 8mm color stock may show a late-1930s mountain cabin setting near Bucks Lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the cabin exterior rather than presenting a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone chimney, sloped roof, wood siding, cabin window, pine trunks, evergreen branches, blue sky, and film frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, slight blur, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame borders that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, rural transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between family travel or mountain-location scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a cabin-like structure within a forested recreation setting, offering visual context for rural leisure or mountain stays without showing people.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or noted, but copyright, location identification, and property-release questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake cabin, 1930s California mountain house, vintage home movie chimney, and wooded cabin exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Bucks Lake footage, then other 1938 Bucks Lake exteriors, then broader 1930s wooded cabin or California mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing a cabin exterior with stone chimney, wood siding, steep roof, and surrounding pines. — Cabin side and chimney partly framed by tall trees in the Bucks Lake woods.

Bucks Lake cabin exterior in 1938 footage, with a stone chimney rising beside the roof and trees partially obscuring the siding. — Stone chimney and steep cabin roof viewed through pine branches.

Frame from the 1938 Bucks Lake clip showing the cabin side, chimney stones, roofline, window area, and surrounding pines. — The camera view shifts closer across the cabin side and chimney.

Late frame of the 1938 Bucks Lake cabin view, showing the stone chimney, sloped roof, wood siding, and nearby pine trunks. — Cabin chimney and roof remain centered as the wooded exterior view continues.

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