Bucks Lake California-1938: Beautiful Image Of A Mountain Bathed By A Blue Lake

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

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Beautiful Image Of A Mountain Bathed By A Blue Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Bucks Lake, California, bathed in a deep blue hue. The camera slowly pans across the tranquil lake, framed by tall pine trees in the foreground and distant mountains under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, timeless feel. This archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into mid-20th century nature scenes, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127261882

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 nature footage suited for documentary or educational requests needing a quiet California mountain-lake landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show a simple home-movie landscape view whose era is supported by the 1938 metadata rather than visible clothing, vehicles, signage, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a visitor pausing to record the lake through shoreline pines from a scenic overlook or wooded edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, distant mountain ridge, tall pine trees, darker foreground trunks, clear sky, and soft shoreline contours.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with saturated blue color, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and slight frame instability from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, memory beat, regional establishing cutaway, or quiet transition in a nature or travel sequence.
Historical context: The view documents recreational landscape filming in the late 1930s, showing Bucks Lake as a wooded mountain setting without visible crowds or development.
Research note: No people, brands, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-use concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 8mm Bucks Lake footage, California mountain lake home movie, blue lake pine trees, and 1930s scenic nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bucks Lake or 1938 California material, then broader mountain-lake and pine-forest scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bucks Lake view with blue water, distant mountain ridge, and pine trees partly obscured by dark foreground trunks. — Bucks Lake appears beyond pine trees, with mountains across the water.

Bucks Lake, California, framed by a tall pine and foreground trunks, with a mountain ridge across the water. — A tall pine frames the lake and distant ridge line.

A central pine rises in front of Bucks Lake, with saturated blue water and mountains softened by the 8mm scan. — A pine tree stands against the blue lake and mountain backdrop.

Late-1930s 8mm view of Bucks Lake with a pine tree in the foreground, blue water, and a distant mountain ridge. — Foreground pines frame the lake and distant mountains.

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