Washington USA-1938: Dam Releasing Water and Train Crossing Steel Bridge

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Washington

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Dam Releasing Water and Train Crossing Steel Bridge — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in Washington USA, showing a dramatic view of a dam releasing water with powerful cascades. The scene transitions to a long shot of a train crossing a large steel truss bridge over the river, with a mountainous backdrop under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and soft focus, capturing the industrial era's engineering marvels in authentic archival quality.

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: 121486333

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm footage for documentary or educational edits needing industrial infrastructure, hydropower, rail transport, or Pacific Northwest travel material.
Period detail: The steel trestle bridge, dam spillway, distant rail crossing, and monochrome home-movie look support a late-1930s industrial landscape reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the dam and bridge from a fixed or gently handheld distance rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dam spillway, foaming water, a long steel bridge, train cars, river mist, wooded slopes, mountains, and overcast sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, scratches, and uneven exposure give the scan the texture of original 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as an industrial cutaway, travel insert, transition between water and rail themes, or brief memory beat of 1930s infrastructure.
Historical context: The footage places water control and rail movement in the same river landscape, without identifying the dam, bridge, or train operator.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but landmark, infrastructure, copyright, and property-rights status should be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1930s Washington dam footage, 8mm train bridge crossing, vintage hydropower spillway, and home movie industrial landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel views, then Washington or 1938 infrastructure footage, then broader dam, bridge, railway, or river engineering material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a distant steel trestle bridge across a river landscape with mountains behind it. — Distant steel bridge seen across a misty river valley.

A train appears to cross a long steel bridge in Washington, 1938, filmed from a distant home-movie viewpoint. — Train crossing the elevated steel bridge in the distance.

Home-movie view of the bridge and surrounding Washington river landscape, with heavy film edges and soft 8mm texture. — Bridge structure framed by the dark edges of the film scan.

1938 Washington frame showing water pouring over a dam spillway beneath or near a long steel bridge. — Foaming water releases from the dam below the bridge structure.

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