Athens Ohio USA-1966: Video Of The Silver Spade In Action In An Old Mine

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationAthens, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Ohio

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Video Of The Silver Spade In Action In An Old Mine — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1966 captures the massive Silver Spade mining excavator in action at a surface mine in Athens, Ohio. The iconic white and red machine, with its bold lettering and crest, dominates the frame as it digs into the earth. The film shows the immense scale of the industrial operation, with the excavator's arm and bucket moving through the dirt under a hazy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, purple color cast, and film scratches, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century mining technology and industrial Americana.

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: 120933698

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1966 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: Athens, Ohio, 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 industrial archive footage for productions needing a brief home-movie view of a large surface-mining shovel or excavator at work in Ohio.
Period detail: The red-and-white machinery lettering, 8mm color rendering, and open mine setting support the 1966 metadata and show mid-century heavy industrial equipment rather than a contemporary worksite.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or observer-shot quality, with tight framing on the machine cab and boom from a nearby vantage point instead of staged industrial coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Silver Spade name on the machinery housing, a red stripe, a crest-like emblem, the angled boom, cables, excavated ground, distant spoil banks, and purple-tinted sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, gate edges, dust marks, vertical scratches, soft focus, and a purple color cast that give the footage strong physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short industrial insert, machinery cutaway, mining-history transition, or visual detail within a sequence about extractive industry and large-scale earthmoving.
Historical context: The footage visually situates heavy surface-mining equipment in a stripped-earth landscape, emphasizing the scale of mechanized excavation without showing workers or surrounding community life.
Research note: No people are visible, but the Silver Spade name and emblem are clearly readable, so trademark or branding review may be needed separately from copyright and property analysis.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s 8mm Silver Spade excavator, Athens Ohio surface mine footage, vintage mining shovel home movie, and red white mining machine boom.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with 1966 Athens Ohio mining material, and then with broader 1960s industrial, excavation, and heavy machinery scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm frame from Athens, Ohio showing the red-and-white Silver Spade machinery housing with readable lettering above rough mine earth. — Silver Spade housing over the mine floor.

1966 8mm frame from Athens, Ohio with the Silver Spade name and emblem visible on the side of the large mining machine. — Readable Silver Spade side lettering.

1966 8mm frame from Athens, Ohio showing a partial view of the Silver Spade housing beneath the angled boom and cables. — Boom and partial machinery housing.

1966 8mm frame from Athens, Ohio focused on the Silver Spade boom, cables, and a portion of the machinery against the surface mine background. — Boom and cables over the mine.

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