El Dorado City California-1938: Buckaroo Mo Doc Cowboy Hat Horse Outside Daytime

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationEl Dorado City, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 El Dorado City California

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Buckaroo Mo Doc Cowboy Hat Horse Outside Daytime — Clip Details

EL DORADO CITY CALIFORNIA-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a cowboy in a dark hat and jacket riding a horse past a rustic log cabin with a 'Coffee Shop' sign. The footage, shot in daylight, shows the rider moving from left to right across the frame, with a distinct purple color cast typical of early color film. The scene exudes a nostalgic, mid-20th century Americana feel, with visible film grain and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage for historical or editorial projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 127262309

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: Yes
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: El Dorado City, 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 for productions needing a Western-themed visitor scene with a horseback rider outside a rustic coffee shop.
Period detail: The dark cowboy hat, saddle, log-style facade and typewritten title card may show a staged tourist buckaroo setting in late-1930s El Dorado City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-held camera watching a rider pass by, with the moment recorded as a brief travel memory rather than a staged studio shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a title card, a mounted rider, a dark cowboy hat, a saddled horse, log-style posts, a Coffee Shop sign and bright daytime grounds.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, gate edges, handheld framing and a strong purple-blue color shift that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, Western travel cutaway, location transition or memory beat within a 1930s Americana sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational Western imagery and roadside or attraction-style design without proving the rider's identity, the business name or the site's operating history.
Research note: People and signage are visible, so copyright, likeness and trademark or location identification should be reviewed separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 California home movie cowboy on horseback, 8mm buckaroo tourist scene, El Dorado City coffee shop rider and vintage Western recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other El Dorado City or 1938 California travel clips, then broader 1930s Western recreation, horseback riding and roadside attraction material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Typewritten-style title card for the 1938 El Dorado City home movie segment, reading The Buckaroo on Mo Doc. — Opening title card identifies the segment as The Buckaroo on Mo Doc.

In El Dorado City, California, a cowboy-hatted rider on horseback passes a rustic log-style building with a Coffee Shop sign. — A mounted rider moves past the coffee shop facade in bright daylight.

The rider and horse continue across the frame beside log-style posts and a rustic Coffee Shop entrance in the 1938 California home movie. — The horse and rider pass close to the log-style posts outside the shop.

A cowboy-hatted rider on a saddled horse moves away near the Coffee Shop sign and log-style entrance at El Dorado City. — The rider turns farther from the camera near the rustic shop entrance.

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