Nevada USA-1957: Women At Dam Tunnel Entrance With Rocky Canyon View

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

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Women At Dam Tunnel Entrance With Rocky Canyon View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a tunnel entrance carved into rocky cliffs, likely near a dam or reservoir in Nevada. The footage shows a woman in a light-colored top and sunglasses observing the landscape, with a large body of water and rugged mountains in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of mid-century Americana and archival nostalgia. The sequence includes a view of the tunnel's arched opening with safety barriers and a distant light, followed by a wider shot of the surrounding canyon and water, suggesting a family outing or tourist visit to a historic engineering landmark.

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: 123477298

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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: Useful for 1950s travel, dam-area tourism, and western canyon landscape requests needing brief home-movie views of visitors, tunnel works, water, and rocky terrain.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century dam or reservoir visit, with light summer clothing, sunglasses, safety barriers, concrete tunnel structures, and 8mm color rendering supporting the 1957 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, moving from a tunnel entrance to women looking around and then to broad canyon-and-water views.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an arched tunnel portal, concrete walls, rocky cliffs, safety barriers, two women, reservoir water, rugged mountains, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that give the short sequence a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quick travel insert, dam-tour cutaway, western landscape transition, or memory beat within a mid-century family trip sequence.
Historical context: The frames place tourists or travelers beside large engineered structures and canyon scenery, reflecting a leisure visit to a developed western landscape without proving a specific landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Research matches include 1957 Nevada 8mm dam visit, women at tunnel entrance, vintage reservoir canyon view, and mid-century western travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Nevada or 1957 dam-area travel clips, then with broader canyon, reservoir, and roadside-tourism material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Nevada home-movie frame showing an arched tunnel entrance in rocky canyon terrain with concrete walls and safety barriers. — Tunnel portal and concrete works appear beneath rugged cliff faces.

Two women, one partly turned away and one in sunglasses, stand near a concrete tunnel structure in a rocky Nevada canyon setting. — Visitors stand near the tunnel and canyon works during a sunny stop.

Soft 8mm view of reservoir water, pale shoreline, and rugged Nevada canyon hills from a handheld visitor perspective. — The camera turns toward water and dry rocky slopes beyond the dam area.

Rugged Nevada canyon walls and reservoir water fill the frame in a faded 1957 8mm travel view. — Canyon cliffs and still water close the short travel view.

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