Washington USA-1938: Water over Dam in Mountain Valley

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

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Water over Dam in Mountain Valley — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1938 in Washington USA, showing a panoramic view of a mountainous valley with a large dam structure. The grainy black-and-white film captures water flowing over the dam's spillway, with a small town nestled in the valley below. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including visible grain, scratches, and edge borders, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 121486480

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: 1930s Washington 8mm footage suited to documentary requests for dam infrastructure, mountain valley geography, and small-town landscape views.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1930s visitor vantage point over a dam site, with a broad valley town, steep hillsides, and a timber or trestle-like structure visible in one view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, panning or cutting across distant scenery rather than staging people or formal activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include mountain ridges, a valley settlement, water or reservoir surfaces, dam spillway forms, a trestle-like structure, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows soft focus, heavy grain, vertical scratches, flicker, and contact-frame borders that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, regional transition, or memory beat for Depression-era public works landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a dam and town within a mountainous Washington valley without identifying the structure or making claims about a specific project.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or infrastructure permissions should be checked by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Washington dam footage, 8mm mountain valley town, vintage reservoir spillway, and home movie public works landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Washington views, then broader dam, reservoir, mountain town, or infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm view of a broad mountain valley with faint water and settlement details below. — A soft, grainy view looks across a mountainous valley from a high vantage point.

1938 Washington home-movie frame showing a valley town beneath steep mountain slopes. — A small settlement appears at the base of rugged hills in the valley below.

1938 Washington 8mm frame with hillside terrain and a faint town strip along the valley floor. — The camera frames the hillside and a line of buildings or roads near the valley floor.

1938 Washington view of a dam-area structure, water below, and mountain ridges beyond. — A trestle-like dam structure spans the lower frame with water and hills behind it.

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