California USA-1952: Birds Eye View Of Hoover Dam The World's Highest At 727

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Birds Eye View Of Hoover Dam The World's Highest At 727 — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping panoramic view of the Hoover Dam in California. The camera pans across the massive concrete structure, highlighting its iconic stepped design and the surrounding rugged desert canyon. A towering electrical transmission tower stands prominently in the foreground, with power lines stretching across the frame. The footage, marked by the warm color palette and film grain of mid-century Super 8, offers a nostalgic glimpse of American infrastructure during the 1950s. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 123339070

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 infrastructure footage for editors needing a brief visitor-shot view of Hoover Dam and its desert canyon setting.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century tourism-era dam viewing, with concrete towers, transmission lines, and color home-movie stock supporting the 1952 attribution.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor's elevated viewpoint, panning across the dam as a landmark encountered during travel rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the concrete dam face, intake towers, canyon walls, reservoir water, a transmission tower, power lines, and sparse foreground branches.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and handheld framing give the footage a physical 8mm travel-film texture.
Edit role: Use as a short insert, location transition, infrastructure cutaway, or period travel beat within a larger 1950s American road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The scene places large-scale hydroelectric infrastructure within a rugged desert canyon landscape as seen by a private traveler.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, landmark depiction, and property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s 8mm Hoover Dam, vintage home movie dam panorama, desert canyon infrastructure footage, and mid-century travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then with 1952 Hoover Dam or nearby Southwest travel footage, then with landmark infrastructure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm frame of Hoover Dam from an elevated visitor viewpoint, with a foreground transmission tower and canyon walls beyond. — Dam, reservoir, canyon, and power infrastructure seen from an elevated vantage point.

1952 visitor-shot view of Hoover Dam, showing the concrete structure, intake towers, reservoir, and steep canyon slopes. — The dam and intake towers fill the frame beneath shadowed canyon walls.

1952 8mm frame looking across Hoover Dam toward reservoir water and rugged canyon walls, with foreground branches at left. — A closer pan view emphasizes the dam face, reservoir, and surrounding canyon.

1952 home-movie frame of Hoover Dam's concrete face and towers, set against reservoir water and shadowed canyon terrain. — Concrete dam towers stand against the reservoir and canyon backdrop.

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