Oregon USA-: View Of Dam Releasing Water On A Clear Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Oregon USA-: View Of Dam Releasing Water On A Clear... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a wide view of a massive concrete dam in Oregon, USA, releasing water through its spillways. The scene unfolds on a clear, sunny day with rolling hills and power lines visible in the background. A roadway and bridge in the foreground show light traffic, while the dam's structure dominates the landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and engineering.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123478470

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: 1958 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: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s archival home-movie footage for requests needing a wide infrastructure view of a dam spillway, roadway, and power corridor in an Oregon-attributed landscape.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century highway railings, utility poles, transmission towers, and a large concrete dam filmed from a roadside or overlook position.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the dam and surrounding roads rather than presenting a staged or official engineering view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway water, bridge or roadway, guardrails, light traffic, utility poles, power towers, rolling hills, and a rocky foreground.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight gate edges, and a contact-sheet sense of handheld home-movie observation.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel transition, or brief memory beat for public works and Western landscape sequences.
Historical context: The view places a large dam within a road and power-line landscape, suggesting the visual scale of water control and transport infrastructure without naming the site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but site identification, copyright status, and any property or agency permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches might include 1958 8mm dam spillway, vintage Oregon dam home movie, concrete dam releasing water, and mid-century hydroelectric infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Oregon-attributed 1958 infrastructure views, then broader vintage dam, bridge, roadway, and power-line footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame of an Oregon-attributed concrete dam scene with spillways, a foreground roadway, utility poles, distant hills, and light vehicles. — Concrete dam and spillway seen beyond a roadway and guardrails.

Wide 8mm view of the Oregon-attributed dam with water at the spillway, bridge or road railings in front, and power lines across the hills. — Dam spillway and roadway framed by utility poles and distant hills.

Oregon-attributed 1958 home-movie frame showing the dam from a lower roadside angle, with water spray, bridge railings, rocky ground, and hills. — Lower view of the dam with spillway spray and a bridge in the foreground.

Final 8mm frame of the Oregon-attributed dam scene, with spillway water, foreground bridge, rocky ground, hillside roads, utility poles, and light flare. — Dam, bridge, and spillway spray with hills and power infrastructure behind.

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