Arizona-1967: Building Of A Dam

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Building Of A Dam — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1967 captures the massive Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) in Arizona, showcasing its iconic concrete structure and towering intake towers against a rugged desert canyon backdrop. The grainy, color-bleached film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with natural film grain and slight color fading, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American infrastructure. The camera pans across the dam's face, revealing its monumental scale and engineering design, with water visible below and rocky cliffs rising behind. This authentic home movie footage provides a rare, personal perspective on a historic landmark during the 1960s.

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: 120834453

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 landmark and infrastructure footage suited to documentary requests for American dam engineering, desert canyon travel, public works, and mid-century visitor-shot views.
Period detail: The frames show Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam as identified in the metadata, with concrete intake towers, canyon walls, and color 8mm home-movie texture consistent with the stated 1967 date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot landmark view, observing the dam from an elevated vantage point rather than presenting a staged industrial or official survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include concrete dam walls, tall intake towers, dark reservoir water, rugged canyon rock, access structures, and the black borders of the scanned 8mm film frame.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, exposure fluctuation, and handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about water, power, engineering, or western U.S. landscapes.
Historical context: The view places a major concrete dam within a desert canyon setting, offering visual context for mid-century public infrastructure as seen by a private traveler.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1960s 8mm Hoover Dam footage, Boulder Dam home movie, vintage dam intake towers, desert canyon infrastructure, and American public works archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1967 Arizona or Hoover Dam views, and then with broader footage of dams, water infrastructure, power generation, and western U.S. travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 8mm view of Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam, showing the concrete dam face, intake towers, dark water below, and rugged canyon rock behind. — Dam face and intake towers in the canyon.

Visitor-shot 8mm frame of Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam in Arizona, with tall intake towers, the curved concrete structure, reservoir water, and desert canyon walls. — Elevated view across the dam and towers.

1967 home-movie frame showing an intake tower and dam wall at Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam, with water at the base and rocky desert canyon in the background. — Intake tower beside the dam wall.

Final 8mm frame of Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam, with twin intake towers, concrete infrastructure, dark reservoir water, and rugged canyon walls visible. — Twin towers and canyon water at the dam.

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