Oroville California-1938: Young Boy Stands By Riverbank In Blue-Tinted 8mm Footage

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

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Young Boy Stands By Riverbank In Blue-Tinted 8mm Footage — Clip Details

A young boy in a red jacket stands at the edge of a rocky riverbank, gazing at the flowing water. The scene is bathed in a deep blue-purple hue, characteristic of aged 8mm film from the 1930s. Lush trees line the river's edge, and the water moves steadily over stones, creating a serene, natural setting. The footage captures a quiet, contemplative moment in a rural landscape, with the film's grain and color distortion adding to its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 127264227

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 footage for productions needing a brief river, stone arch, or roadside infrastructure insert with a human figure for scale.
Period detail: The clip may show 1938-era rural California travel footage, with stonework, a road edge, and a small figure in work clothes visible through blue-purple 8mm color shift.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the water and arch from a visitor-like position, using the standing person as an unstaged point of attention rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky riverbank, moving water, trees, a stone arched opening, a paved road or path, and a single standing person.
Film character: The footage has heavy blue-purple dye shift, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and contact-sheet duplication consistent with aged small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, place-setting insert, transition between travel scenes, or memory beat around water, roads, and old infrastructure.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for outdoor travel or public works landscapes in Oroville, while the frames do not identify a named bridge, tunnel, or construction project.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s Oroville 8mm river footage, vintage California stone arch home movie, blue-tinted road tunnel footage, and archival riverbank travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with 1938 Oroville or Northern California material, then with river, road, bridge, and travel-home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blue-purple 8mm frame from Oroville showing a rocky riverbank, trees, and water flowing through a wooded channel. — Rocky river and trees appear in blue-tinted small-gauge footage.

Oroville home-movie frame showing a shaded river channel bordered by rocks and trees, with strong blue-purple film aging. — The camera holds on water and rocks along a wooded bank.

1938 Oroville frame showing a distant person standing by a large stone arch or tunnel opening beside a paved road. — A lone figure stands near the mouth of a stone arch.

Blue-tinted Oroville footage shows a person near a stone arched opening, with roadway markings leading into the dark passage. — The arched stone structure fills the frame as a person stands near its edge.

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