Oroville California-1938: Historic Footage Of Feather River Bridge With Cars

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationOroville, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Oroville California

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Historic Footage Of Feather River Bridge With Cars — Clip Details

OROVILLE CALIFORNIA-1938: Historic 8mm home movie footage captures the Feather River Bridge, with vintage automobiles crossing the structure. The black-and-white film shows a rural landscape with trees and hills surrounding the roadway. Shot from a fixed perspective, the clip features natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of 1930s amateur Super 8 footage. The bridge sign clearly reads 'FEATHER RIVER BRIDGE 12-35,' indicating the location and date. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American infrastructure and transportation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127263628

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: Oroville, 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: Useful for 1930s California infrastructure, road travel, or regional transportation sequences needing authentic 8mm bridge footage.
Period detail: The sign reading "FEATHER RIVER BRIDGE 12-35," the simple roadway, and distant automobiles support a late-1930s rural California bridge setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding on a landmark sign and roadway rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible details include the bridge sign, roadway, bridge rail or approach, distant cars, roadside trees, hills, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders typical of amateur film handling.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing insert, roadway cutaway, infrastructure reference, or memory beat in a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places automobiles and a named river bridge within a rural Northern California road landscape without documenting a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and location or property identification needs.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s 8mm Feather River Bridge footage, Oroville California road scenes, vintage bridge sign, and cars crossing a rural bridge.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with 1938 Oroville or Feather River material, then with California bridges, highways, and vintage automobile travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville footage frame showing the Feather River Bridge sign, bridge approach, distant road, and rural hillside. — Feather River Bridge sign at the roadway approach.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of the Feather River Bridge sign near Oroville, with the road and distant automobiles behind it. — Bridge sign with cars visible farther along the road.

1938 8mm frame showing the Feather River Bridge sign in front of a rural road and tree-covered slope. — Bridge identification sign fills much of the frame.

Late-1930s Oroville frame of the Feather River Bridge sign, with a pale roadway and rural hillside visible behind it. — Feather River Bridge sign and approach road in black-and-white 8mm footage.

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