Oroville California-1938: Snow-Covered Mountain Valley with Pine Trees

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

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Snow-Covered Mountain Valley with Pine Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping black and white view of a snow-dusted mountain valley in Oroville, California. Tall pine trees dot the rugged terrain, their branches heavy with winter snow, while the camera holds a steady, wide-angle perspective of the serene wilderness. The grainy texture and soft focus of the Super 8 footage evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a rare glimpse into mid-20th century natural landscapes. This clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content exploring early 20th century American life and nature.

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: 127264007

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 archival productions needing a brief exterior landscape insert of a snowy pine valley in Northern California home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm imagery with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signs, or other details that would independently date the scene beyond the supplied 1938 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or family filmmaker pausing on a wide natural view rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered slopes, tall pine trees, a broad valley floor, distant ridgelines, soft winter haze, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, seasonal transition, wilderness cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1930s or California landscape sequence.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for recreational or travel-oriented home movies that recorded rural mountain scenery without showing identifiable people or built structures.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status, location attribution, and any property concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 8mm snowy California valley, Oroville pine forest home movie, black-and-white mountain landscape, and 1930s wilderness footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other Oroville or 1938 California footage, then with winter forest, travel, camping, or mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1938 8mm frame of a snow-dusted pine valley near Oroville, California, with a distant wooded ridge. — Snow-covered pines and a distant ridge fill the valley view.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a snowy pine-covered valley in the Oroville, California area, with hills rising in the background. — A winter valley scene with pines standing against distant hills.

Grainy 1938 8mm frame showing a snowy pine landscape and mountain slope near Oroville, California. — Snow and dark pine forms define the mountain landscape.

Black-and-white home-movie frame of a snow-dusted pine valley and wooded hills, identified by metadata as Oroville, California in 1938. — A broad winter view across pines, snow, and distant hills.

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