Oroville California-1938: Serene Valley With Beautifully Rounded Clumped Pines

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Serene Valley With Beautifully Rounded Clumped Pines — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1938 captures a serene mountain valley in Oroville, California. The black-and-white footage shows snow-dusted slopes and dense clusters of pine trees lining the hillsides. The camera remains steady, offering a wide view of the natural landscape. Film grain, scratches, and slight fading are visible, adding to the authentic archival quality of this classic home movie. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-20th century Americana.

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: 127264025

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 archive requests needing quiet 8mm landscape footage of a snowy Northern California mountain valley for documentary inserts, regional history, or nature sequences.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look and 1938 metadata place the scene in the late 1930s, while the visible content is limited to snow-covered hills, pines, and a distant valley.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a steady, visitor-shot wide view, preserving an unstaged look at winter terrain rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-dusted slopes, rounded pine clusters, a valley floor, distant ridgelines, pale sky, film-frame borders, and small dust marks.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm monochrome texture with visible grain, mild fading, gate edges, and specks that support its original home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm establishing insert, seasonal transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat between human or travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a rural mountain landscape near Oroville as preserved by a home-movie camera, without visible roads, buildings, people, or signage in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any broader property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Oroville California snow valley footage, 1930s mountain pine landscape, vintage home movie winter hills, and black-and-white forest cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or Northern California landscapes, then broader 1930s winter mountain and pine forest footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm frame from Oroville, California showing a snow-dusted valley, clustered pines, and soft distant hills. — Wide home-movie view of a snowy valley with pine-covered slopes.

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame showing rounded pine groups across a snowy hillside and valley basin. — Snow-dusted pines and hills fill the steady landscape frame.

Oroville, California 1938 home-movie frame with snow-bright pines, hazy hills, and visible 8mm texture. — A soft, grainy winter view of pines and sloping mountain terrain.

Late-1930s 8mm view near Oroville with a snowy valley, dark pine clusters, distant hills, and visible dust marks. — Snowy valley and pine clusters seen through a marked 8mm film frame.

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