Oroville California-1938: Sign Reads Feather River Bridge And View Of Map

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationOroville, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Oroville California

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Sign Reads Feather River Bridge And View Of Map — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Orovilla, California, in 1938, showing a close-up of a white sign reading 'FEATHER RIVER BRIDGE 12-35' with a road and arid landscape in the background. The scene transitions to a detailed black-and-white map of Northern California, highlighting towns like Quincy, Meadow Valley, and Bucks Lake, with visible highways and elevation markers. The footage captures the era's travel planning and transportation infrastructure with authentic film grain and a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 127263640

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1930s travel, road-trip, bridge, map, and Northern California transportation inserts for documentary, museum, education, or period research edits.
Period detail: The Feather River Bridge sign, road setting, printed highway map, town names, route numbers, and elevation markings provide visible 1930s-era travel and infrastructure clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot travel-planning perspective, moving from a roadside bridge sign to a map used to orient the journey through the Feather River region.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Feather River Bridge sign, roadside terrain, a printed map, Quincy, Meadow Valley, Bucks Lake, Keddie, route numbers, rivers, and elevation labels.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows high-contrast black-and-white texture, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, geographic transition, route-planning cutaway, or establishing memory beat for a Northern California journey.
Historical context: The images place attention on road navigation and regional geography, showing how a traveler recorded a bridge marker and map details rather than people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or map reproduction considerations.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 8mm California road trip, Feather River Bridge sign, Northern California map, Quincy Meadow Valley Bucks Lake, and vintage travel planning.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1938 Oroville or Feather River footage, then broader 1930s California road, bridge, map, and travel-planning scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Orovilla, California frame showing a Feather River Bridge sign with a road and arid hillside in the background. — Roadside Feather River Bridge sign marked 12-35.

Close view of a Northern California map with Quincy, Meadow Valley, Bucks Lake, Keddie, route numbers, rivers, and elevation notes. — Map detail showing Quincy, Meadow Valley, Bucks Lake, and surrounding routes.

1938 travel-map frame showing Quincy, Meadow Valley, Spanish Ranch, Bucks Lake, route numbers, waterways, and elevation markings. — Close-up of regional map routes around Quincy and Meadow Valley.

Final frame holds on the Northern California map around Quincy, Meadow Valley, Keddie, route numbers, rivers, and elevation labels. — Map view centered on Quincy, Meadow Valley, and nearby mountain routes.

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