California USA-1938: Views Of Water Spilling From Dam And Mist Covered Mountains

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 California

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Views Of Water Spilling From Dam And Mist Covered Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 1938 8mm home movie footage from California USA showing mist-covered mountain ranges with evergreen trees in the foreground. The scene transitions to a dam with water spilling over its structure, captured through the frame of a window or vehicle. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and natural aging, with soft black-and-white imagery and subtle color tinting in later frames. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of early 20th-century landscape and infrastructure, ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nature-focused editorial content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121485905

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California home-movie landscape and infrastructure footage for documentary inserts about mountains, travel, waterworks, or regional memory.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s visitor footage, with misted mountain views, evergreen silhouettes, and a dam spillway seen through a dark window or vehicle frame.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on distant scenery and infrastructure from a sheltered or framed vantage point rather than a staged setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include mist-covered mountain ridges, evergreen trees, dark window framing, valley haze, a dam or spillway, falling water, and aged film marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, exposure shifts, and a brief warm tint that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic cutaway, infrastructure insert, travel transition, or reflective memory beat between broader California or water-management scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually connects mountain tourism or travel observation with a large water-control structure, without enough detail to identify the specific dam.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but dam identity, location specificity, copyright status, and any property implications should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 California 8mm mountains, misty evergreen ridges, vintage dam spillway, home movie water infrastructure, and Depression-era travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with California 1938 landscape or dam material, then with broader mountain, water, and infrastructure themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California home-movie frame of mist-covered mountain ridges and tall evergreens viewed through a dark window-like frame. — Misted mountain scenery with evergreen silhouettes and dark framing at the edges.

California mountain view with an evergreen foreground tree, layered fog, and dark film or window framing around the scene. — Evergreen foreground tree against fog-softened mountain slopes.

1930s home-movie view of a tall evergreen before misted mountain ridges, with heavy grain and soft monochrome exposure. — Tall evergreen tree centered over a hazy mountain valley.

Warm-tinted 1938 California frame showing water pouring over a dam or spillway, with dark framing and aged film marks. — Water spills across a dam or spillway structure in a warm-tinted frame.

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