Nevada USA-1959: The Grand Dam That Holds Both Our Water And Power

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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The Grand Dam That Holds Both Our Water And Power — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures the massive Hoover Dam in Nevada, showcasing its iconic concrete structure and surrounding rugged canyon landscape. The footage highlights the dam's hydroelectric power infrastructure, including towering transmission towers and high-voltage lines stretching across the arid terrain. The color palette features the characteristic blue and purple tint of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and slight distortion. The camera pans across the dam and power lines, emphasizing the scale of this industrial marvel. No people appear in the clip, focusing instead on the engineering feat and its integration with the natural environment. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American infrastructure and the era's engineering achievements.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: No people
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123621978

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: 1959 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s documentary requests needing visitor-shot views of Hoover Dam, hydroelectric infrastructure, or mid-century American public works in a home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames show concrete dam architecture, transmission towers, high-voltage lines, canyon rock, and an empty roadway consistent with the 1959 Nevada Hoover Dam metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor's sightseeing perspective, using handheld framing to scan the dam, power lines, canyon walls, and roadside infrastructure rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the dam face, intake towers, lattice transmission structures, bundled power lines, rocky canyon slopes, a paved road, shadows, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and gate edges that give the footage a physical mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or cutaway for sequences about water, power, western landscapes, public works, or remembered travel.
Historical context: The footage visually situates Hoover Dam as both a tourist landmark and working power installation within a desert canyon setting, without showing workers or visitors.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions needed for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm Hoover Dam footage, Nevada hydroelectric dam home movie, vintage power lines, transmission towers, canyon road, and mid-century infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Nevada travel footage, then other 1959 Hoover Dam or canyon views, then broader hydroelectric, public works, and western road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada home-movie frame showing Hoover Dam's concrete wall, intake towers, canyon rim, and dark transmission-line shadows. — Concrete dam wall and intake towers seen from a visitor vantage point above the canyon.

1959 Nevada view of Hoover Dam structures with bundled high-voltage lines and canyon terrain visible around the concrete face. — High-voltage lines cross in front of the dam wall and intake towers.

1959 Nevada frame looking across Hoover Dam power infrastructure, with a lattice tower, heavy lines, canyon wall, and empty road. — Transmission tower and power lines dominate the view beside the dam and canyon road.

1959 Nevada home-movie view of Hoover Dam power infrastructure beside canyon rock and an empty road, framed by dark foreground shadow. — Canyon road and electrical infrastructure appear below the dam-side transmission lines.

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