California USA-1952: Concrete Dam Between Rocky Mountains

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Concrete Dam Between Rocky Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of a massive concrete dam nestled between rugged, rocky mountains in California. The camera pans slowly across the structure, revealing its scale against the arid landscape and the calm reservoir it holds back. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct blue-purple tint and film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American infrastructure and engineering. Ideal for historical documentaries, archival projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123338799

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: California, 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: 1950s 8mm home-movie dam footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing mid-century American infrastructure in a rugged Western landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1952 visitor view of a large concrete dam, reservoir, rocky mountains, and pale utility structures recorded from a tourist vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the dam from a visitor distance, valuing scale, scenery, and travel memory rather than staged action or on-camera people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam wall, dark reservoir water, rocky slopes, pale towers or buildings, cliff shadows, and the rounded edges of an 8mm frame.
Film character: The scan carries home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing across the contact sheet.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat between broader California or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a large engineered water-control structure within an arid mountain setting, reflecting a visitor's mid-century interest in monumental public works.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should verify dam identification, location, copyright status, and any property or access restrictions.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1952 8mm California dam, vintage reservoir home movie, mid-century concrete dam, rocky mountain infrastructure, and Western road-trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material from the New Orleans to Pacific trip, then with California 1952 views, then with dams, reservoirs, mountain roads, and infrastructure themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie view of a concrete dam, calm reservoir water, and rugged rocky slopes seen from a distance. — A distant view of the dam wall and reservoir against rocky mountains.

The California dam and reservoir remain centered as the 1952 8mm camera pans across the rocky landscape. — The pan continues across the dam, water, and mountain face.

A wider 1952 California dam view shows reservoir water, the concrete wall, rugged slopes, and pale tower-like structures on the right. — Pale structural towers enter the frame beside the dam wall.

The 1952 California home-movie pan ends with the dam wall, reservoir, rocky backdrop, and pale structures near the right edge. — The final view holds the dam, reservoir, and adjacent pale structures.

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