British Columbia Canada-1979: Dam Storage For Water

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 British Columbia Canada

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Dam Storage For Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage footage captures a wide river winding through a rugged valley in British Columbia, Canada. The camera pans across the landscape, revealing a large concrete dam in the distance, its massive structure spanning the river. The scene is framed by rolling hills and dry, golden terrain under an overcast sky. The final frames offer a closer view of the dam's base, showing a small boat on the water and gravel in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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: 123108370

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 1792 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-09,1
Reel-level year note: 1979
Reel-level location note: canada
Date: 1979 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: British Columbia, Canada 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 requests for late-1970s British Columbia infrastructure, river-valley landscape, and dam cutaways for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The footage may show 1970s visitor-shot views of a concrete dam, dry valley slopes, gravel foreground, and muted color typical of small-gauge travel film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler pausing at an overlook to record the river valley and dam rather than staged industrial coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding river, rolling hills, dry grassland, a large concrete dam, gravel or rock foreground, dark frame edges, and a small boat near the dam base.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an original home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory transition, or quiet visual bridge in a sequence about water storage or regional landscapes.
Historical context: The views place a large water-control structure within a broad British Columbia river valley, showing the dam as part of a sparsely populated rugged landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any site or property permissions separately for intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1979 British Columbia dam footage, vintage 8mm Canadian river valley, home movie water storage, and 1970s concrete dam cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 British Columbia material, then broader dam, river, reservoir, or infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 British Columbia 8mm view of a winding river valley with dry slopes, distant hills, and dam structures partly visible below. — Wide visitor-shot view across a river valley toward the dam area.

Supported by metadata as British Columbia in 1979, the frame shows a river bend, dry terrain, distant hills, and partial dam infrastructure. — River bend and surrounding hills viewed from above the dam area.

Closer 1979 8mm view of the concrete dam face in British Columbia, with gravel in the foreground and water at the base. — Concrete dam face seen from a gravel slope above the water.

Late-1970s British Columbia home-movie frame showing the dam base, waterline, gravel foreground, and a small boat beside the concrete structure. — Small boat near the base of the concrete dam, with gravel in the foreground.

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