Washington USA-1938: Dam Spillway and Mountain Valley

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

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Dam Spillway and Mountain Valley — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in Washington USA, showing an aerial view of a dam with water cascading over its spillway, followed by a misty mountain foothill landscape. The grainy black-and-white film captures a small village nestled in the valley, with visible film scratches and a dark vignette border typical of archival home movies. The sequence conveys a nostalgic, historical atmosphere of early 20th-century Americana, with natural and engineered landscapes coexisting in a serene, timeless setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121486467

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s documentary sequences needing Washington aerial landscape, hydroelectric dam, reservoir, or mountain valley atmosphere from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s aviation or travel filming, with oblique aerial views, a large engineered dam structure, and sparse valley settlement visible through haze.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot aerial perspective, observing the dam and surrounding foothills without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dam walls, spillway water, reservoir edges, misty mountain slopes, a valley village, river or road lines, film gate borders, and scratched black-and-white frames.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft black-and-white contrast, heavy grain, vertical scratches, exposure falloff, and dark gate edges that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, geographic transition, engineering cutaway, or quiet memory beat between travel and landscape sequences.
Historical context: The imagery places engineered water infrastructure beside rural mountain terrain, offering visual context for prewar travel filming and landscape documentation without identifying a specific dam.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any dam or property-related permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1938 Washington 8mm aerial dam, black-and-white reservoir spillway, misty mountain valley home movie, and vintage foothills village footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Washington 1938 travel views, then broader 1930s dam, reservoir, aerial, and mountain landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing an aerial view over a dam structure, spillway water, and heavy black film gate edges. — Aerial view over a dam and spillway, framed by dark 8mm gate borders.

1938 Washington 8mm frame with an oblique aerial view of dam infrastructure, reservoir water, and adjacent terrain. — Dam and reservoir edge seen from above in grainy black-and-white footage.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing a hazy mountain foothill landscape with a small valley village below. — Misty foothills and a valley settlement seen through scratched archival film.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing misty foothills above a small valley settlement, with archival scratches and gate edge visible. — Hazy mountain landscape with settlement traces in the valley below.

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