Oroville California-1938: River Winding Through Forested Valley

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

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River Winding Through Forested Valley — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Orovilla California in 1938 captures a serene river winding through a dense forested valley. The initial frames show a natural black-and-white view of rolling hills and thick trees, with visible film grain and scratches characteristic of Super 8 footage. The final frames transition into a dramatic blue-tinted filter, creating a surreal, dreamlike effect over the same landscape. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of early 20th-century nature cinematography, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 127264044

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 California nature or travel sequences needing brief 8mm home-movie views of a forested river valley without visible people.
Period detail: The 8mm framing, monochrome exposure, and color-tinted duplicate frames may show late-1930s amateur travel filming rather than a staged scenic production.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from above the valley, holding on the river and wooded slopes as a personal record of landscape rather than a formal survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding river, steep forested hillsides, distant ridgelines, tall trees, dark film borders, and a blue-tinted lower sequence.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, heavy grain, gate edges, scratches, uneven exposure, and tint variation that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief scenic cutaway, transition, or memory beat for rural California travel, river landscapes, or archival nature context.
Historical context: The frames show a forested river valley near Oroville, offering visual context for outdoor leisure or travel filming in northern California in the 1930s.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and exact location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1930s 8mm California river valley footage, Oroville forest landscape home movie, and vintage mountain river scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville material, then broader 1930s California river, forest, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville, California 8mm frame showing a distant river valley, wooded slopes, ridgeline, and visible film gate edges. — A monochrome home-movie view looks across a wooded valley toward a winding river and distant hills.

1938 Oroville, California 8mm view of wooded hills and a river valley, framed by dark vertical film borders. — The camera holds on the forested valley, with the river faintly visible between wooded hillsides.

Blue-tinted 1938 Oroville 8mm frame showing a river bend below dense forested slopes and dark film edges. — A blue-tinted section emphasizes the river bending through steep, tree-covered terrain.

Blue-tinted 1938 Oroville, California 8mm view of a river in a dense valley, with visible grain and gate edges. — The final visible frame repeats the valley scene in blue tint, with the river cutting through the trees.

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