California USA-1938: Large Water Dam Bridge View

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

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Large Water Dam Bridge View — Clip Details

Vintage 1938 8mm home movie footage from California USA showing a large water dam with cascading water and industrial structures. The clip captures a view from a moving vehicle, with railroad tracks and yellow safety barriers visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with power lines and distant mountains framing the scene. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century infrastructure and engineering.

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: 121485968

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: Supports 1930s California infrastructure requests needing archival home-movie views of a large dam, bridge approach, water discharge, and surrounding industrial landscape.
Period detail: The yellow bridge barriers, rail or road approach, utility poles, concrete dam works, and soft 8mm color help place the footage within a late-1930s travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vehicle, valuing the passing approach and sightseeing view rather than a staged engineering study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, cascading spillway water, a bridge or roadway edge, utility poles, rail-like tracks, industrial structures, rocky water, and distant mountains.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, color fading, gate edges, dust, grain, and slight motion blur that read as physical-film texture from a home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief infrastructure insert, travel transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat for prewar California public works footage.
Historical context: The views show recreational or travel access near a major water-control structure, with engineered concrete, power lines, moving traffic perspective, and rugged terrain in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but dam identity, site permissions, copyright status, and any property concerns should be checked before commercial use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 California 8mm dam footage, vintage home movie spillway, prewar bridge approach, and archival water infrastructure view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 California infrastructure views, then broader dam, bridge, waterworks, and road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm view from a moving vehicle approaching a large dam, with yellow bridge barriers, utility poles, tracks, and concrete structures. — Bridge-side approach to the dam with utility poles and concrete works visible.

1938 California home-movie frame showing water spilling from a large dam, rocky shoreline in front, industrial edges, and mountains in the distance. — Wide view of cascading spillway water with mountains beyond the dam.

Soft 8mm frame from California in 1938 showing a dam spillway, white water, rocky foreground, and muted mountains beyond. — Dam spillway and rocky water foreground seen through faded 8mm color.

1938 California 8mm view of a dam spillway with white water, rocks in the foreground, a small structure at left, and mountains behind. — Spillway water, rocks, and a small dam-side structure near the frame edge.

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