Hoover Dam Nevada-1952: Hoover Dam from Distance with Hills

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationHoover Dam, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Hoover Dam from Distance with Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures the Hoover Dam from a distance, its massive concrete structure dominating the frame against a backdrop of dark, rugged hills. The footage, likely from a road trip, shows the dam's iconic arch and the road along its crest, with small vehicles visible. The image has a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged film, with noticeable grain and soft focus. The camera pans slowly across the structure, emphasizing its scale and engineering marvel in the American Southwest.

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: 123338919

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: Hoover Dam, Nevada, 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: 1952 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary inserts on Hoover Dam, midcentury road travel, public works, or American Southwest tourism.
Period detail: The frames show Hoover Dam from a visitor vantage, with small vehicles on or near the crest and aged color film consistent with the supplied 1952 date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the dam's scale rather than staging activity or people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the concrete dam face, crest roadway, small vehicles, intake tower forms, dark rocky hills, and blue sky at the canyon edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and a purple-blue color shift that preserve the texture of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, road-trip transition, engineering insert, or memory beat for midcentury travel.
Historical context: The view places a major public-works landmark within a midcentury tourist filming context, emphasizing scale and canyon setting without showing visitors.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, copyright, and location-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Searches for 1952 8mm Hoover Dam footage, Boulder Dam home movie, midcentury Southwest road trip, or vintage dam engineering cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel road-trip material, then other Hoover Dam or 1952 Southwest views, then broader public-works and midcentury travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm frame of Hoover Dam from a distance, showing the concrete face, crest area, rugged hills, and soft blue-purple film color. — Hoover Dam seen from a distant visitor viewpoint, with the concrete structure framed against dark hills.

Distant 1952 view of Hoover Dam, with the dam face, crest roadway, small vehicles, and dark rocky hills softened by aged 8mm color. — The dam crest and small vehicles appear beneath the dark hillside backdrop.

1952 8mm frame showing a closer section of Hoover Dam, including the concrete face, tower form, crest road, and canyon hills. — A closer section of the dam face shows geometric concrete surfaces and the crest road.

End frame of the 1952 Hoover Dam view, with tower structures, crest traffic, concrete wall, and rugged canyon hills in aged 8mm color. — The pan reveals more of the dam crest, tower structures, and canyon wall behind.

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