Arizona-1967: Model Of Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Facility

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Model Of Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Facility — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1967 captures a detailed model of a hydroelectric dam, likely representing the Hoover Dam, set against a rocky desert backdrop. The clip features a large concrete structure with multiple vertical openings and machinery, surrounded by a dark water basin. The model includes intricate details like railings, support beams, and electrical equipment, all rendered in muted earth tones with visible film grain and edge distortion characteristic of home movie footage. The camera pans across the model, revealing its scale and engineering design, evoking mid-century American infrastructure and retro nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120834122

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1967 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s editorial productions needing visitor-shot home-movie material of a hydroelectric dam display or Hoover Dam-related infrastructure model.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century interpretive model or exhibit, with visible concrete dam forms, dark reservoir areas, and miniature machinery consistent with tourist or educational displays of large-scale hydroelectric engineering.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-held camera studying a public display, moving across the model to record its scale and engineering details rather than staging a formal presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a miniature concrete dam face, dark water basin, rocky canyon walls, railings, catwalk-like structures, vertical openings, equipment shapes, and the rounded crest of the dam model.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and slight instability that read as physical home-movie texture from original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert or cutaway for Hoover Dam tourism, hydroelectric infrastructure, public education displays, or mid-century American engineering memory beats.
Historical context: The material visually connects large public works and tourist interpretation, showing how dam infrastructure could be encountered through a scale model rather than direct site footage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but researchers should verify whether the model depicts Hoover Dam and separately assess copyright, location, and property permissions for the underlying footage and exhibit design.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1967 8mm Hoover Dam model footage, hydroelectric dam scale model, visitor home movie dam exhibit, or vintage infrastructure display footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1967 United States or Hoover Dam-area travel footage, and finally with broader hydroelectric, dam, desert tourism, and engineering exhibit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 8mm frame showing part of a hydroelectric dam model with a dark reservoir area, concrete structures, and rocky foreground terrain. — Dam model and dark basin detail.

Visitor-shot 8mm view of a hydroelectric dam model, with a curved concrete dam face, rocky canyon sides, dark water, railings, and small equipment details. — Concrete dam model in rocky setting.

1967 home-movie frame showing a detailed hydroelectric dam model from above, including canyon rock texture, concrete openings, railings, and water-facing structures. — Model dam viewed from above.

Close 8mm frame of the curved concrete dam face in the model, emphasizing vertical weathering lines, pale concrete tones, and the rounded crest shape. — Close-up of curved dam face.

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