Bucks Lake California-1938: Old Woman Stands Near Yellow Car In Front Of Her Cabin

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

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Old Woman Stands Near Yellow Car In Front Of Her Cabin — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a patterned dress standing beside a light-colored vintage car in front of a wooden cabin at Bucks Lake, California. Surrounded by dense pine trees and a tranquil forest setting, the scene evokes mid-century Americana. The woman poses near the vehicle, with a small dog visible at her feet, as the camera slowly pans to reveal the mountainous backdrop. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color shifts and grain, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 127261702

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 California home-movie footage suited to requests for rural vacation cabins, early automobile travel, and domestic leisure scenes in a wooded mountain setting.
Period detail: The rounded light-colored car, modest wooden cabin, and woman's patterned dress may show late-1930s leisure travel details consistent with the supplied 1938 date.
Home-movie behavior: The woman stands and poses near the car while the camera observes from a family or visitor perspective, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a patterned dress, a light-colored vintage car, a small dog, a wood-sided cabin, pine trees, shrubs, and distant forested hills.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and purple-blue color shift that read as physical-film texture from an original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition for rural California travel, cabin life, or family vacation sequences.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for automobile access to wooded recreation areas and informal posing outside a cabin, without identifying the people or property shown.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status should be checked separately from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Bucks Lake home movie, 1930s California cabin, woman beside vintage car, wooded vacation footage, and 8mm mountain travel scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake or 1938 California material, then broader 1930s cabin, forest, and vintage car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Bucks Lake, California in supplied 1938 footage, a woman poses near a pale vintage car outside a small cabin surrounded by pines. — Woman posing near a light-colored car outside a wooded cabin.

The woman remains near the vintage car and cabin as the wooded Bucks Lake setting and distant hillside become more visible. — Woman, dog, car, and cabin framed against pines and a hillside.

The camera shifts toward the car and forested mountain backdrop, with only part of the cabin and woman visible at the edge. — Car foreground with cabin edge, pines, and mountain trees beyond.

The final frame emphasizes the pale car, tall pines, and forested Bucks Lake hillside, with the cabin partly cropped at left. — Vintage car set against dense pines and a wooded hillside.

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