Oroville California-1938: Mountain View With River And Bridge

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

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Mountain View With River And Bridge — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic mountain vista in Oroville, California. The footage, tinted with a deep blue-purple hue typical of early color film, shows a winding river cutting through a forested valley. A weathered utility pole stands in the foreground, while a steel truss bridge spans a canyon in the distance. The grainy texture and color degradation add to the authentic archival feel of this historic 1930s landscape footage.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127264095

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: 1930s Oroville home-movie landscape footage suits documentary inserts needing a brief mountain, river, or bridge view from Northern California.
Period detail: The 8mm color cast, soft focus, and visitor vantage may show late-1930s amateur filming of a canyon road or bridge landscape near Oroville.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler viewpoint, lingering on scenery from a roadside or overlook rather than presenting a formal survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include forested canyon slopes, a winding river, a bare foreground trunk or pole, distant ridgelines, foliage, and a steel bridge.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, soft exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a scenic cutaway, geographic transition, or memory beat between travel, infrastructure, and California landscape material.
Historical context: The view documents how an amateur camera encountered a dramatic river canyon and bridge setting without showing people, vehicles, signage, or commerce.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but bridge, location, and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1938 Oroville 8mm footage, California canyon river bridge, 1930s mountain vista, and vintage home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or Northern California views, then broader river canyon and bridge footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame showing a forested canyon, winding river, distant ridges, and dark foreground trunk. — A blue-purple home-movie view looks across a canyon toward a winding river and distant hills.

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame with a hazy canyon, pale river bend, foreground trunk, and leafy branch near the edge. — The river winds through the valley below, framed by a dark trunk and edge foliage.

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame showing a soft, blue-purple canyon vista with a river and bare foreground trunk. — A bare trunk anchors the foreground as the river recedes through the canyon below.

1938 Oroville-area 8mm frame showing a steel truss bridge spanning a canyon with slopes and a lower route below. — A steel bridge spans the canyon, with a winding route visible beneath it.

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