Grand Coulee Washington-1979: Concrete Dam with Water Spillways

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationGrand Coulee, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Concrete Dam with Water Spillways — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam in British Columbia, Canada, with water flowing through its spillways. The footage shows the dam's imposing structure from multiple angles, with calm river water in the foreground and distant hills under a clear sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film edge borders evoke a strong sense of nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century infrastructure development.

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: 123108395

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: Grand Coulee, Washington, 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: 1970s 8mm infrastructure footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about dams, public works, hydroelectric power, or Canadian civic development.
Period detail: The concrete dam, calm reservoir or river water, and faded 8mm color may show late-1970s public-works filming in British Columbia, as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering on the dam from nearby water level rather than presenting a staged industrial survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam wall, spillway gates, dark water, sloped embankments, distant hills, sky, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries a grainy 8mm texture with soft focus, faded color, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, infrastructure insert, regional transition, or memory beat within a sequence about water, energy, or civic construction.
Historical context: The imagery places a large dam within a rural or semi-rural landscape, suggesting the visual scale of public infrastructure without documenting a named facility or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s British Columbia dam, 8mm hydroelectric infrastructure, Canadian river spillway, vintage public works footage, and home movie dam exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then British Columbia 1979 material, then 1970s Canadian infrastructure, dams, rivers, and energy-related footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 British Columbia 8mm frame showing a concrete dam, dark water, sloped bank, pale sky, and black film borders. — A concrete dam is viewed across dark water, with a sloped bank at the left edge.

1979 British Columbia 8mm frame with dam spillway gates, concrete wall, calm water reflections, and heavy black frame edges. — Spillway gates and the concrete face of the dam appear across calm water.

1979 British Columbia 8mm frame showing a closer view of dam gates, foreground water, distant hills, and dark film borders. — The camera frames the dam gates more closely, with hills visible beyond the structure.

1979 British Columbia 8mm frame showing dam gates across dark water, a right-side shoreline edge, distant hills, and pale sky. — A wide water-level view holds on the dam gates with hills behind them.

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