Oroville California-1938: Steel Bridge Spanning River in Mountain Valley

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

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Steel Bridge Spanning River in Mountain Valley — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Orovillo California in 1938 captures a steel truss bridge spanning a rocky riverbed, surrounded by forested hills. The black-and-white footage shows the bridge's sturdy concrete supports and the rushing water below, with the camera panning to reveal the rugged mountain landscape. Shot on 8mm film, the clip exhibits natural grain and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a glimpse of early 20th-century infrastructure in a remote natural 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127263987

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: Useful for 1930s editorial or documentary requests needing rural California infrastructure, mountain travel, or river-crossing scenery from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The steel truss bridge, concrete piers, rocky riverbed, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural infrastructure reading without naming a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a traveler or visitor filming a scenic bridge and then turning toward the surrounding valley rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steel truss bridge, concrete supports, rocky river channel, flowing water, forested slopes, distant hills, and heavy frame-edge shadows.
Film character: The scan shows black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, variable exposure, and contact-sheet frame borders that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat within a Depression-era California sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places engineered river crossing infrastructure within a rugged forested valley, suggesting regional travel or road access context without further claims.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Oroville California 8mm bridge footage, vintage steel truss bridge over river, and 1930s mountain valley home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or Northern California scenes, then broader vintage bridge and mountain river footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville, California home-movie frame showing a steel truss bridge on concrete piers above a rocky river channel. — A steel truss bridge spans a rocky river channel below forested hills.

A second view of the Oroville-area bridge shows the truss deck, concrete piers, river rocks, and wooded slope behind it. — The bridge structure and river channel remain centered in the frame.

The camera shifts from the bridge toward a soft, distant view of the forested Oroville-area valley and hillside terrain. — The view opens onto the surrounding forested valley and hills.

A soft 1938 home-movie view of the Oroville-area mountain landscape, with trees, slopes, and a pale channel or road through the valley. — Forested slopes and a pale valley line fill the final frame.

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