Grand Coulee Washington-1979: Grand Coulee Dam with Reservoir

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

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Grand Coulee Dam with Reservoir — Clip Details

BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA-1979: A massive concrete dam stretches across a calm reservoir under a bright daytime sky. The 8mm film captures the structure's imposing vertical spillway gates and arched crest, with still water reflecting the overcast light. Shot from a low angle near the water's edge, the footage shows a gravel shoreline and distant hills, conveying a sense of quiet industrial scale. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film scratches are characteristic of vintage home movie footage from the late 1970s.

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: 123108438

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Canadian infrastructure requests needing real 8mm dam footage as a documentary insert, establishing cutaway, or archive texture.
Period detail: The footage shows a concrete dam, calm reservoir water, gravel shoreline, distant hills, and faded color consistent with the supplied 1979 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint from near the waterline, observing the dam's scale without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the concrete dam face, arched crest, vertical spillway bays, still reservoir water, gravel shoreline, distant hills, and pale daytime sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, gate weave, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet infrastructure cutaway, location-establishing insert, transition beat, or reflective pause in a travel or energy sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a large public works structure as seen by a home-movie camera, emphasizing industrial scale within a British Columbia landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, site permissions, and property or landmark restrictions separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1979 British Columbia dam 8mm footage, vintage Canadian reservoir, concrete spillway home movie, or quiet water infrastructure may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other British Columbia 1979 footage, then broader dam, reservoir, hydroelectric, or concrete infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 British Columbia 8mm view of a concrete dam across still reservoir water, with a gravel shoreline and low hills beyond. — Wide low-angle view of the dam, reservoir, gravel shoreline, and hills.

Home-movie frame from British Columbia in 1979 showing the dam face, quiet reservoir water, and gravel shoreline under a pale sky. — The dam stretches across the frame above still water and shoreline gravel.

Closer 8mm view of the British Columbia dam, showing vertical spillway bays, an arched crest, dark water, and part of a concrete structure at right. — Closer framing emphasizes the dam's vertical bays and concrete mass.

1979 British Columbia home-movie frame showing the dam's sloped concrete face, repeated spillway divisions, waterline, and hillside in the background. — The camera holds on the dam face, with repeated concrete divisions and water below.

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