Oroville California-1938: View Of White Arch Rock Sign And Stream On A Bright

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

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View Of White Arch Rock Sign And Stream On A Bright — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Orovilla California in 1938, showing a white sign for the Arch Rock Tunnel mounted on a stone wall. The scene transitions to a rushing stream with white water flowing over rocks, surrounded by forested hillsides. The footage exhibits the characteristic purple-blue color cast and grain of early color film, capturing a nostalgic moment of natural scenery and roadside infrastructure from the late 1930s.

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: 127264216

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 travel, roadside infrastructure, and nature cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The Arch Rock Tunnel sign, stone wall, and 8mm color rendering support a late-1930s roadside travel context in Oroville, California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera takes a visitor-shot view, pausing on the tunnel sign before turning to nearby rushing water and wooded rock slopes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an Arch Rock Tunnel sign, stone masonry, a stream, white water, rocks, brush, and forested hillside.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, and slight home-movie instability typical of aged 8mm color film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short location insert, travel transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between road and river scenes.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for automobile-era sightseeing around a named tunnel and adjacent natural watercourse without showing people or vehicles.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright, location, and property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches for 1930s Oroville California 8mm footage, Arch Rock Tunnel sign, California stream home movie, or vintage roadside landmark may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1938 Oroville or California travel footage, then broader roadside signs, tunnels, streams, and nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville, California 8mm frame showing a white Arch Rock Tunnel sign beside rough stone masonry. — Arch Rock Tunnel sign on a stone roadside wall.

1938 Oroville, California home-movie frame showing white water moving through rocks below a brushy hillside. — Fast-moving water runs past rocks below a wooded slope.

1938 Oroville, California 8mm frame with a rushing stream, scattered rocks, and a pale rocky bank behind it. — White water in the stream with rocks and brush along the bank.

Late-1930s Oroville, California frame showing a rocky stream and wooded slope with strong blue-purple film color shift. — Rocky stream and hillside vegetation seen in aged color 8mm footage.

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