California USA-1938: Water Flows Over Large Dam Lined With Rocks

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

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Water Flows Over Large Dam Lined With Rocks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1938, showing a wide river flowing over a large dam with cascading water. The scene features a rugged mountainside backdrop and rocky riverbanks under a muted sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic, archival view of mid-20th century American infrastructure and natural landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121485919

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports archival requests for 1930s California home-movie views of river infrastructure, dams, water control, and rugged Western landscapes for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 1938 8mm metadata and subdued color home-movie look place the scene in the late 1930s, while the frames show a broad dam or spillway against rocky hills.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot landscape observation, holding on the water and dam from a distant roadside or overlook perspective without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide river, cascading water over a dam, dark rock outcrops, rocky banks, concrete or masonry structures, muted hills, and a pale sky.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld instability that preserve its physical-film character.
Edit role: Editors can use it as an infrastructure cutaway, regional landscape insert, transition into water-management history, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s travel sequence.
Historical context: The view visually situates a large water-control structure within a dry, mountainous California landscape without identifying the specific dam or making operational claims.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any site-specific property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 California 8mm dam footage, vintage home movie spillway, river over dam, rocky Western landscape, and 1930s water infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other scenes from the same reel, then with California 1938 landscapes or infrastructure views, and then with broader vintage river, dam, and water-control footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing water spilling over a broad dam, with dark rocks in the river and rugged hills in the background. — Water flows over a broad dam or spillway below muted rocky hills.

1938 California home-movie view of a dam spillway, white water, dark rocks, and a dry-looking hillside backdrop. — A distant view frames the spillway, river rocks, and hills across the valley.

1938 California 8mm frame with soft focus on cascading dam water, rocky foreground, a dark outcrop, and a small structure at the right edge. — Soft-focus home-movie footage shows the spillway and rocky river edge.

1938 California 8mm frame showing a dam spillway across a river, rocky foreground bars, dark rocks, and muted hills behind. — The final frame holds on the river, spillway, foreground rocks, and hillside backdrop.

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