Oroville California-1938: Vehicle On Road Entering Tunnel Entrance

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

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Vehicle On Road Entering Tunnel Entrance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a classic automobile approaching and entering a dark mountain tunnel in Oroville, California. The footage, rendered in a striking blue-purple monochrome typical of early color film, shows the car navigating a winding road through rugged terrain. The tunnel entrance is framed by rough rock walls, and the vehicle's movement creates a sense of journey and exploration. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century transportation and road travel.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127264264

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 8mm road-travel footage suited for documentary inserts about California motoring, mountain routes, tunnel approaches, or period transportation.
Period detail: The frames show a rounded-body automobile, narrow paved road, simple roadside sign, and rough rock tunnel entrance consistent with late-1930s travel imagery.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint from a moving vehicle, recording the approach to a tunnel as part of a road trip rather than a planned production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving road, dark tunnel mouth, rock-cut hillside, small roadside sign, approaching automobile, road shoulder, and blue-purple film tonality.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, gate edges, exposure shifts, and blue-purple monochrome color that signal scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, route transition, tunnel-entry cutaway, or brief memory beat for prewar California road movement.
Historical context: The scene places road travel within a rugged California landscape, showing how a tunnel and rock-cut roadway shaped the filmed journey.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any location or roadway permissions for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm Oroville tunnel road, vintage California driving footage, home movie car entering tunnel, and 1930s road travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Oroville or Northern California road scenes, then broader vintage tunnel and driving footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Oroville road scene showing a car approaching a dark tunnel cut into a rocky hillside. — A vehicle follows the curve of the road toward the tunnel entrance.

A car continues toward the tunnel on a rocky Oroville roadway, seen in blue-purple 8mm film color. — The car moves closer to the shadowed tunnel mouth.

The vehicle reaches the tunnel opening as the road curves into the dark passage in Oroville, California. — The automobile reaches the edge of the tunnel entrance.

Close view of the tunnel mouth and roadway as the vehicle nears or enters the dark opening. — The tunnel entrance dominates the frame as the road bends inside.

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