Arizona-1967: Atop A Dam Looking At The Water And Mountains From Afar

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Atop A Dam Looking At The Water And Mountains From Afar — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Arizona in 1967, capturing a dramatic view from atop a massive concrete dam. The clip shows the deep canyon walls, the reservoir's calm water, and distant mountain ranges under an overcast sky. The perspective shifts slightly, revealing the dam's structure, spillways, and surrounding arid landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and desert scenery.

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: 120834444

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage supports documentary or museum requests for visitor-shot views of a major concrete dam, reservoir water, canyon walls, and arid mountain scenery in Arizona.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century dam infrastructure through its concrete observation-height perspective, narrow film framing, muted color, and 1967 metadata-supported home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a visitor filming from atop the dam, holding on the reservoir and canyon before shifting slightly across the surrounding mountains and dam edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a high concrete dam wall, reservoir water, steep rocky canyon sides, distant mountains, overcast sky, service platforms, and spillway-like structural edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture of the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel transition, or reflective memory beat between wider Southwest landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage places large-scale water-control infrastructure within a dry canyon landscape, offering visual context for mid-century road-trip documentation without asserting a specific landmark beyond the supplied Arizona dam metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or landmark permissions separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1967 Arizona 8mm dam footage, vintage reservoir canyon view, home movie concrete dam, and 1960s Southwest infrastructure landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Arizona 1967 dam or reservoir views, and then with broader 1960s Southwest travel and infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Arizona 8mm frame looking down from atop a concrete dam toward green reservoir water, service platforms, and steep rocky canyon walls. — Looking down along the dam wall and reservoir.

1967 Arizona 8mm frame from a dam overlook showing the reservoir, concrete dam edge, dark canyon slopes, distant mountains, and overcast sky. — Reservoir view across the canyon from the dam.

1967 Arizona 8mm frame showing a broad view from the dam across reservoir water, concrete infrastructure, rocky canyon walls, and distant mountain ridges. — Wide canyon and reservoir view from the dam.

1967 Arizona 8mm frame looking over the concrete dam wall toward reservoir water, rocky desert hills, distant ridgeline, and pale overcast sky. — Rocky hills beyond the dam and reservoir.

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