Oroville California-1938: Approaching A Boulder-Built Pass Through One Of The Arch Rock Tunnels

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

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Approaching A Boulder-Built Pass Through One Of The Arch... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1938 captures a road approaching the Arch Rock Tunnel in Oroville, California. The footage shows a stone-arched tunnel entrance built into a rocky mountainside, with a white sign clearly marking "ARCH ROCK TUNNEL 12-109." The scene is bathed in a distinct purple hue, characteristic of aged color film, and features a dark tunnel opening with a distant view of the mountain landscape. The camera moves forward along the road, creating a sense of journey through a historic engineering landmark.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127264196

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 California road travel, tunnel engineering, and mountain-route archive requests needing authentic 8mm roadway approach footage.
Period detail: The clip shows a stone tunnel portal, a narrow paved road, and an Arch Rock Tunnel sign, with the 1938 date and Oroville location supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The forward-moving viewpoint feels like a traveler filming from a vehicle as it approaches a notable roadside tunnel rather than a staged survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved mountain road, stone arch tunnel entrance, rocky walls, Arch Rock Tunnel sign, white signpost, dark opening, and distant hillside.
Film character: The 8mm footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color shift consistent with aged home-movie film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, road-trip transition, engineering cutaway, or brief memory beat for historic California travel.
Historical context: The scene documents a roadway tunnel built into rock, showing how roadside infrastructure and mountain passageways appeared to a visitor camera in the late 1930s.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, roadway authority, landmark identification, and property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1938 Oroville California 8mm, Arch Rock Tunnel road approach, vintage tunnel entrance, or Depression-era California travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or California road footage, then broader tunnel, mountain-road, and engineering themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville footage shows a road leading toward a dark stone-arched tunnel opening set into rock. — Roadway view approaching the stone Arch Rock Tunnel entrance.

The Arch Rock Tunnel sign marked 12-109 stands in front of a rocky stone wall in the Oroville clip. — Close view of the Arch Rock Tunnel sign beside the stonework.

A tighter 1938 Oroville frame centers the Arch Rock Tunnel sign with rough stone blocks and dark rock beside it. — Arch Rock Tunnel sign fills the frame against rough stone.

The final frame holds on the Arch Rock Tunnel sign, white post, stone wall, and dark rock edge in aged 8mm color. — Final sign view showing the tunnel name and adjacent rock wall.

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