Nevada USA-1959: Vintage 8mm Footage of a Massive Dam and Reservoir

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage 8mm Footage of a Massive Dam and Reservoir — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam and reservoir in Nevada. The footage shows winding roads along the dam's edge, with cars driving past the water's edge. The camera pans across the structure, revealing its distinctive cylindrical towers and the vast blue reservoir nestled in a rugged desert landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic mid-century aesthetic, offering authentic archival footage of American infrastructure from the late 1950s.

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: 123622072

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: 1950s Nevada 8mm infrastructure footage suited to documentary requests for mid-century dams, reservoirs, desert roads, and visitor-shot public works views.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1950s automobile access roads, concrete dam architecture, intake towers, and reservoir edges in a rugged desert setting.
Home-movie behavior: The short pan and roadside vantage point preserve a visitor-shot perspective, emphasizing what a traveler noticed while looking across the water and dam structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue reservoir water, concrete dam walls, cylindrical intake towers, winding roads, sparse desert slopes, small cars, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries authentic 8mm texture with soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief infrastructure insert, travel transition, reservoir cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s American West sequence.
Historical context: The imagery places large-scale water and road infrastructure within a desert landscape, viewed through the casual gaze of a mid-century home-movie camera.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, copyright, and property-context review should remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Nevada 8mm dam footage, vintage reservoir home movie, mid-century American infrastructure, and desert dam travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then with Nevada or 1959 travel material, then with broader 1950s infrastructure, reservoir, and American West sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing a blue reservoir, concrete dam edge, desert slope, and a winding road with a small car. — Reservoir and dam-edge road seen from an elevated visitor viewpoint.

1959 Nevada 8mm view across a reservoir toward concrete dam works, cylindrical towers, and rocky desert terrain. — Concrete towers and dam structures stand in the reservoir below desert rock.

1959 Nevada 8mm frame centered on cylindrical intake towers, concrete spans, reservoir water, and desert shoreline. — Intake towers and concrete spans dominate the reservoir view.

1959 Nevada 8mm view of a concrete dam wall, intake towers, deep blue reservoir water, and surrounding desert rock. — The camera frames the dam wall and towers across the reservoir.

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