Bucks Lake California-1938: Vintage Mountain Line View In The Summer

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Vintage Mountain Line View In The Summer — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene summer view of Bucks Lake, California. The clip features a tranquil lake framed by tall pine trees in the foreground, with a distant mountain range under a clear sky. The footage exhibits the characteristic purple and blue color cast of early color film, with visible grain and slight camera shake. A wooden utility pole appears briefly in some frames, adding to the rustic, mid-century atmosphere. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into a peaceful natural landscape from the late 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127261785

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 landscape footage suited to documentary, museum, or editorial sequences needing a quiet mountain lake view in Northern California.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1930s vacation footage, with a simple lakeside utility pole and undeveloped pine-covered shoreline as visible era cues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, holding on the lake, trees, and distant mountains as a travel memory rather than a composed commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include Bucks Lake, pine trees, a distant mountain ridge, blue summer sky, shoreline vegetation, and a wooden utility pole in some frames.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, slight gate marks, and mild handheld instability consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, nature cutaway, memory transition, or regional landscape beat within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a recreational mountain-lake view with sparse visible development, offering visual context for outdoor travel and leisure imagery of the period.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, 1930s California mountain lake home movie, vintage pine forest lake view, and archival summer landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Bucks Lake or 1938 California footage, then with broader vintage mountain, lake, and vacation themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm view at Bucks Lake, California, with tall pines in the foreground, blue water, and a distant mountain ridge. — Tall pines overlook Bucks Lake with mountains across the water.

Bucks Lake landscape with pines, blue water, distant mountains, and a wooden utility pole visible in the lakeside view. — A lakeside utility pole appears among pines beside the blue water.

1938 Bucks Lake home-movie frame showing pine trees, blue lake water, hazy mountains, and a utility pole near the lower edge. — Pines and a utility pole sit in front of the mountain lake view.

Bucks Lake, California, seen on 8mm film with a tall foreground pine, blue water, distant mountains, and visible film softness. — A tall pine anchors the lakeside view across Bucks Lake.

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