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Oregon USA-: The Camera Pans Across The Dam And Bridge To Capture The Scenery

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • 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-: The Camera Pans Across The Dam And Bridge... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of a massive concrete dam and a long truss bridge spanning a wide river in Oregon. The camera pans across the landscape, revealing turbulent water flowing through the dam's spillway and a distant hillside with a glowing light. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective of mid-century infrastructure.

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
123478480

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s archival requests needing mid-century infrastructure, river engineering, or travel-view establishing footage from an Oregon home-movie reel.
Period detail
The concrete spillway, long road approach, steel truss bridge, and muted 8mm color may show mid-century dam and river-crossing infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, panning from a roadside overlook across the dam, river, hills, and bridge without staged action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a concrete dam spillway, white water, paved approaches, guardrails, rocky embankments, a wide river, a steel truss bridge, and dry hills.
Film character
The footage shows soft 8mm focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, gate borders, and handheld panning that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short infrastructure insert, travel transition, river cutaway, or memory beat between broader Oregon landscape scenes.
Historical context
The view places large public works and road bridges within a dry river valley landscape, reflecting how travelers documented built infrastructure on home-movie film.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark identity, location, copyright status, and any property permissions should still be checked.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1950s 8mm dam footage, Oregon river bridge home movie, vintage infrastructure panorama, and mid-century spillway scenery.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Oregon river or bridge views, then broader mid-century dam and highway infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spillway, road approach, guardrails, rocky foreground, and dry hills beyond the water.
Dam spillway and approach roads viewed from a raised roadside vantage.
The pan holds on the dam and bridge approach, with white spillway water, paved roadways, a rocky slope, and muted hills in the background.
Spillway, roadway, and hillside landscape during the pan across the dam.
Handheld 8mm view of a dam-side road, spillway edge, broad water, rocky foreground, and pale hills during the continued pan.
Road and spillway edge seen as the camera moves across the river valley.
The pan reaches a long steel truss bridge on concrete piers over a broad river, with low hills and shoreline visible behind it.
Steel truss bridge spanning the river at the end of the pan.

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← Previous in archiveOregon USA-: View Of Dam Releasing Water On A Clear Sunny DayNext in archive →Oregon USA-: Vintage 8mm Film of a Steel Truss Bridge Over a River
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