California USA-1952: View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a wide view of the Hoover Dam under a bright, sunny sky. The massive concrete structure dominates the frame, with its iconic buttresses and power plant visible against a rugged mountain backdrop. Cars travel along the dam's crest, emphasizing its scale and function. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—slight color shift, film grain, and soft focus—evoking mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a monumental engineering achievement during a road trip era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123338948

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 footage of Hoover Dam suited for documentary inserts about mid-century travel, public works, and landmark sightseeing.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1950s visitor traffic along the dam crest, with mid-century road-trip framing supported by the 1952 reel metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor-shot view across the dam, valuing the scale of the landmark more than staged action or personal performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the concrete dam face, tower structures, roadway, small cars, rocky mountains, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, establishing insert, or travel-memory beat within a sequence on Western landmarks or engineering sites.
Historical context: The footage places Hoover Dam within a leisure-travel viewpoint, emphasizing the structure as a sightseeing destination amid desert mountains.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or flagged, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1952 8mm Hoover Dam, vintage dam roadway, mid-century landmark travel, and home movie public works footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other New Orleans to Pacific trip reel material, then 1952 Hoover Dam or California-labeled travel clips, then 1950s landmark infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm home-movie view of Hoover Dam towers, crest roadway, mountains, and pale sky, with dark film borders visible. — A wide visitor view frames Hoover Dam towers and the crest roadway below a mountain backdrop.

1952 8mm footage shows a Hoover Dam tower and roadway with small cars, set below rugged mountains and a bright sky. — The dam's crest roadway and tower appear in a sunlit view with mountains behind them.

1952 8mm home-movie frame of Hoover Dam with a tower, concrete face, road deck, and rocky mountain terrain in view. — A closer framing emphasizes the dam tower, roadway edge, and concrete face.

1952 8mm home-movie view of Hoover Dam's tower, concrete buttresses, crest roadway, and surrounding desert mountains. — Concrete buttresses and a tower define the dam view as the roadway crosses the crest.

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