Niagra Falls New York-1964: Large Dam In The Distance

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Large Dam In The Distance — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a massive concrete dam spanning a wide river, viewed from a distance through a dark frame. The scene features a calm waterway with a small grassy peninsula in the foreground, under an overcast sky with soft purple and gray tones. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and slight color fading, capturing a nostalgic mid-century American engineering landmark. A small aircraft briefly flies across the sky in one frame, adding subtle motion to the otherwise static landscape. The overall mood is reflective and historical, evoking mid-20th century Americana.

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: 120817580

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum requests for a distant river dam, hydroelectric infrastructure, or mid-century travel-view landmark material.
Period detail: The faded color, 8mm framing, and distant visitor vantage may show a mid-1960s travel record of a large concrete dam in the United States, consistent with the supplied 1964 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a traveler filming a landmark from a fixed overlook rather than a staged or official engineering view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad river, a long concrete dam with towers, a grassy peninsula or riverbank, overcast sky, dark film-frame edges, and occasional small specks or aircraft in the sky.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure fluctuation, faded purple-gray color, and dark gate edges that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about water control, power, tourism, or American landscapes.
Historical context: The view places a large engineered structure within a quiet river landscape, reflecting how home-movie travelers often recorded public works and scenic overlooks as part of mid-century trips.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but users should still verify copyright status, exact dam identification, location, and any property or agency restrictions before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 8mm dam footage, vintage home movie river dam, mid-century hydroelectric landmark, distant concrete dam, and Niagara Falls New York travel footage if the supplied location is confirmed.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Niagara Falls or New York landmark views, and then with broader archive material on dams, rivers, hydroelectric power, and mid-century road travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame showing a distant concrete dam spanning a broad river, with a grassy bank in the foreground and an overcast sky above. — Distant dam across a broad river.

Distant view of a long concrete dam over a calm river, framed by dark 8mm gate edges and soft faded color. — Long dam viewed from across the water.

8mm home-movie frame with a broad river in the foreground, a distant dam along the horizon, and dark film-frame borders at the sides. — River foreground with dam on the horizon.

Final 1964 8mm frame showing the dam from a distance across the river, with cloudy sky and small dark specks overhead that may be aircraft or film debris. — Dam under cloudy sky with small specks overhead.

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