Oroville California-1938: River Valley Landscape with Trees and Mountains

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

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River Valley Landscape with Trees and Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a winding river cutting through a forested valley in Oroville, California. The footage, bathed in a striking blue-purple tint, shows dense trees lining the banks and a distant mountain range under a pale sky. A weathered utility pole stands in the foreground, adding to the rustic, archival feel. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene, nostalgic glimpse of natural landscapes from the late 1930s. This authentic Super 8 footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nature projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127264078

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 Oroville-area home-movie landscape footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects needing a brief river valley establishing view.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1930s rural California overlook, with a bare utility pole, wooded slopes, and a winding river visible in tinted 8mm footage.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing suggests an amateur traveler pausing at a scenic overlook to record the river valley rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding river, wooded canyon slopes, distant ridges, pale sky, foreground tree trunks, a bare pole, and blue-purple film tint.
Film character: The clip has dense blue-purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, dark edge falloff, and contact-print jitter consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, landscape cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a Northern California historical sequence.
Historical context: The view preserves a quiet prewar home-movie record of river, forest, and mountain terrain around Oroville without visible people, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and location documentation before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1938 Oroville California river valley, 1930s 8mm landscape, vintage home movie forested canyon, and archival river footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Oroville material, then other 1938 California landscape footage, then broader 1930s river, forest, and mountain travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville, California 8mm frame showing a winding river below forested canyon slopes, partly blocked by dark tree trunks. — A blue-purple tinted view of a winding river valley framed by dark foreground trees.

1938 Oroville, California frame with a bare foreground pole, wooded canyon walls, distant ridges, and a winding river below. — A bare pole stands before wooded ridges and a river running through the valley.

1938 Oroville, California 8mm view of a wooded valley, foreground pole, distant hills, and pale river curves below. — The river bends through the wooded valley beneath hazy ridges and a foreground pole.

1938 Oroville, California frame showing a tinted 8mm canyon landscape with river, trees, foreground pole, and distant hills. — A soft, tinted home-movie frame records the river valley and surrounding wooded hills.

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