Nevada USA-1957: Dam and Power Facilities in Desert Canyon

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Nevada

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Dam and Power Facilities in Desert Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic desert canyon landscape with a massive dam and power generation facilities carved into the rocky cliffs. The footage shows concrete structures, power lines, and a river winding through the arid terrain, showcasing mid-century engineering in a remote mountainous region. The grainy, color-graded visuals and film distortion evoke a strong sense of historical Americana and mid-century industrial progress.

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: 123477210

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Nevada, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Nevada 8mm footage suited to documentary requests for desert engineering, dam infrastructure, power generation, and mid-century travel views.
Period detail: The color 8mm look and visitor vantage may show 1957-era dam access roads, cliffside concrete buildings, transmission structures, and arid canyon infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a tourist or family traveler filming an impressive public works landscape from above rather than a staged industrial survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep desert canyon walls, dark river water, concrete dam-related structures, access roads, utility towers, power lines, and rocky slopes.
Film character: Soft grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and handheld framing give the short scene the texture of original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence on Western water and power landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually places large-scale electrical and water-control infrastructure within a dry mountain canyon, without confirming specific operations or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Nevada dam footage, 8mm desert power lines, vintage canyon infrastructure, and home movie hydroelectric buildings.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Nevada dam or canyon views, then broader desert power and infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Nevada 8mm frame showing dark river water below rocky cliffs with concrete dam-related buildings and power equipment. — Canyon infrastructure and concrete buildings seen from an elevated viewpoint.

1957 Nevada home-movie frame looking down into a rocky canyon with water, an access road, and dam-related concrete structures. — A river curves through the canyon below cliffside infrastructure.

1957 Nevada 8mm view of a canyon river bordered by rocky slopes, a road, and a rectangular concrete facility. — Roads and concrete infrastructure line the water in the desert canyon.

1957 Nevada 8mm frame showing transmission towers, power lines, roads, and dam-related structures across a rocky canyon slope. — Transmission towers and roads cross the rocky slope near the dam complex.

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