Arizona-1967: Calm Day At The Hoover Dam

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Calm Day At The Hoover Dam — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1967 showing the Hoover Dam in Arizona on a calm day. The clip opens with a close-up of the dam's concrete structure, then pans to reveal the massive concrete spillway and power plant buildings. Classic American cars from the 1960s are parked along the dam's roadway, with tourists visiting the site. The view expands to show the vast reservoir behind the dam, surrounded by rugged desert mountains under an overcast sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of 8mm home movie footage, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-century American infrastructure and tourism.

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: 120834314

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

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: 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 requests needing 1960s home-movie views of Hoover Dam tourism, large-scale American infrastructure, and desert reservoir landscapes for documentary or educational cutaways.
Period detail: The 1960s period is supported by the 1967 metadata and visible mid-century cars parked along the dam roadway, though individual makes and models are not identifiable from these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, moving from close dam concrete to roadway, power plant structures, parked cars, and the reservoir beyond rather than staging a formal survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include concrete dam walls, water below, power plant or utility buildings, parked cars, roadway barriers, desert rock hills, a reservoir channel, and overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and black frame borders that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory transition, infrastructure cutaway, or visual bridge between mid-century tourism and Western desert landscape material.
Historical context: The footage visually places a major dam and reservoir within a casual travel context, showing public roadway access, parked visitor cars, and the surrounding arid mountain setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged in the supplied metadata, but users should still review copyright status and any site or property restrictions separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1967 8mm Hoover Dam home movie, 1960s dam tourism footage, vintage reservoir and desert mountain cutaway, and mid-century American infrastructure travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1967 or nearby Hoover Dam and Arizona travel footage, then with broader 1960s road trip, dam, reservoir, and desert infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 1967 home-movie view of Hoover Dam concrete and adjacent water, framed tightly with soft focus and black 8mm borders. — Concrete dam wall and water below.

Hoover Dam roadway and concrete utility structures appear beside water and rocky desert slopes in a handheld 1967 8mm frame. — Roadway and structures at Hoover Dam.

A visitor-level 1967 view shows parked cars, concrete dam structures, roadway barriers, and rugged hills around Hoover Dam. — Parked cars along the dam roadway.

The reservoir near Hoover Dam stretches between rugged desert mountains, seen in a soft 1967 home-movie landscape frame. — Reservoir and desert mountains.

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