California USA-1938: Man Standing Near Dam with Water Flowing for Agriculture

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

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Man Standing Near Dam with Water Flowing for Agriculture — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1938 shows a man in a hat and jacket standing near a large dam with water flowing over its spillways. The dam stretches across a river with rugged mountains in the background under a cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a moment of early 20th-century infrastructure and rural life. The scene conveys a sense of historical Americana and agricultural development.

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: 121485994

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: 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: 1930s California infrastructure footage for documentary sequences on dams, irrigation, rural development, or water management.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1938 visitor view of a concrete dam, spillway gates, open water, arid mountains, and simple outdoor clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual roadside viewpoint, with a man briefly standing near the dam as the camera records the structure and flowing water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway water, river or reservoir water, rugged mountains, cloudy sky, shoreline, sparse plants, and a man near the structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, mild handheld framing, visible grain, color fading, gate shadows, and motion blur typical of amateur physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat for irrigation, public works, mountain reservoirs, or Depression-era rural infrastructure.
Historical context: The scene visually connects water control infrastructure with a dry mountain landscape, without identifying the dam or making claims beyond the supplied California metadata.
Research note: A person is visible and the dam may require location research; copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 California 8mm dam footage, home movie irrigation spillway, mountain reservoir water flow, and vintage public works cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 California material, then broader dam, irrigation, agriculture, and mountain-water footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing a concrete dam, flowing spillway water, mountains, and a man standing near the structure. — A man stands near a concrete dam with water flowing beneath mountain slopes.

1938 California 8mm frame with a wide view of a concrete dam spanning water below rugged mountains. — The dam stretches across the water with mountain slopes behind it.

1938 California 8mm frame showing dam spillway water rushing across a rocky mountain landscape. — Water pours from the dam spillway beneath a rugged mountain backdrop.

1938 California 8mm frame of white spillway water beside a concrete dam, with river water and mountains beyond. — White water surges from the dam as the camera frames the river and mountains.

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