Oroville California-1938: Car Driving Across Long Bridge in Forest

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

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Car Driving Across Long Bridge in Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a car driving across a long, elevated concrete bridge surrounded by dense trees. The high-angle view reveals the bridge’s sturdy pillars and the vehicle moving steadily along the roadway, framed by natural foliage. The black-and-white footage shows classic film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century Americana feel. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of early 20th-century infrastructure and transportation in a rural setting.

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: 127263740

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: 1930s California home-movie bridge footage for documentary inserts on rural travel, road infrastructure, or early automobile movement through wooded terrain.
Period detail: The elevated concrete bridge, narrow roadway, and distant car may show late-1930s regional road travel, supported by the supplied 1938 Oroville metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The high, slightly obstructed vantage feels like a traveler or visitor filming a bridge crossing from a lookout rather than a staged production angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long concrete bridge, vertical support piers, a small car on the roadway, wooded slopes, foreground tree branches, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, transition, or memory beat for travel, infrastructure, rural California, or prewar road-trip sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually places automobile travel within a wooded Northern California setting, emphasizing road engineering and landscape without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property or infrastructure permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 8mm Oroville bridge, California forest road home movie, vintage car crossing bridge, and prewar rural infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or California travel material, then broader vintage bridge and car-driving footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame showing a car on an elevated concrete bridge surrounded by wooded slopes. — A distant car travels along a tall concrete bridge framed by trees.

Black-and-white 1938 Oroville frame with a long concrete bridge, vertical piers, and dense trees below. — The bridge spans a wooded area, with its tall supports visible beneath the roadway.

1938 Oroville home-movie frame showing the bridge from above, partly obscured by foreground film edges and trees. — A high-angle view shows the bridge deck and supports amid wooded terrain.

Final 1938 Oroville frame of a tall concrete bridge set into a forested landscape, seen from an elevated home-movie viewpoint. — The bridge remains centered as trees and dark frame edges enclose the view.

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