California USA-1938: Dam Being Shown In Full View To Display How Much Water It

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

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Dam Being Shown In Full View To Display How Much Water It — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in California, USA, showing a large concrete dam nestled against a rugged mountain backdrop. The clip captures the dam in full view, with water flowing over its spillway gates, highlighting its impressive scale and engineering. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain, with a dark border framing the image. The camera pans slightly, offering different angles of the structure and surrounding landscape, evoking a sense of mid-20th century Americana and industrial progress.

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: 121485936

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1930s California infrastructure, public works, dam engineering, or home-movie travel sequences needing a brief establishing view.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1938 visitor view of a large concrete dam, with period clues in the soft 8mm color, distant utility structures, and sparse roadside foreground.
Home-movie behavior: The camera treats the dam as a travel landmark, holding wide views from nearby roads or overlooks rather than staging any formal activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway bays, water below, rugged hills, utility poles, rail or road lines, and a small industrial building.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, faded color, visible gate weave, frame borders, dust specks, and handheld framing that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into water, power, or public works material.
Historical context: The view places a major engineered water structure within a mountain landscape, reflecting how visitors recorded large civic works as sights worth filming.
Research note: Review for copyright status, location identification, and any distant likeness concerns, though no readable logos or clear faces are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Searches for 1930s California dam footage, 8mm home movie public works, vintage concrete spillway, and mountain reservoir views may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 California locations, then broader dam, reservoir, engineering, and public works footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California home-movie frame showing a large concrete dam across water with rugged hills in the background. — A wide visitor view frames the dam, spillway bays, water, and mountain backdrop.

Wide 8mm view of the dam from a nearby vantage point, with repeated concrete bays and distant mountain terrain. — The dam extends across the frame with repeated spillway openings and hills beyond.

Visitor-shot 1938 California view of the dam with foreground lines, brush, water, and hazy mountains beyond. — Foreground tracks or road lines lead toward the dam and surrounding reservoir landscape.

Wide home-movie frame of the dam, an industrial-looking building, utility poles, and distant hills in California. — Utility poles and a nearby building frame the dam from a roadside or overlook position.

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