Nevada USA-1959: View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

NEVADA USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures the Hoover Dam on a bright, sunny day. The footage shows the massive concrete structure nestled between rugged, rocky cliffs, with the deep blue reservoir in the foreground. The camera pans across the dam, revealing its scale and the surrounding arid landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including warm color tones, slight grain, and subtle color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American engineering and travel.

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: 123622080

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s U.S. travel footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial uses needing a visitor-shot view of Hoover Dam and its desert setting.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color 8mm footage of Hoover Dam, with concrete dam structures, reservoir water, and rocky canyon terrain visible in the Nevada location metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot landmark view, with the camera observing the dam from a distance rather than staging people or activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the dam wall, intake towers, reservoir water, arid rock cliffs, access roads, canyon slopes, and bright desert sky.
Film character: The scan carries home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, blue and warm color shifts, uneven exposure, and contact-print frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, engineering landmark transition, or visual bridge in a 1950s U.S. sequence.
Historical context: The footage places a major American dam within a leisure-travel viewpoint, emphasizing scale, water, concrete engineering, and the surrounding desert canyon.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location-use requirements for the final context.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 Hoover Dam home movie, Nevada 8mm dam footage, 1950s American landmark travel, and vintage reservoir canyon view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots from the same trip, then with 1959 Nevada or Hoover Dam footage, then with broader mid-century U.S. travel and infrastructure views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada home-movie frame showing Hoover Dam, dark blue reservoir water, intake structures, and rocky canyon walls. — Hoover Dam appears across the reservoir with concrete structures and canyon rock surrounding it.

1959 Nevada view of Hoover Dam from across the water, with rocky canyon terrain and concrete dam details visible. — A distant view frames the dam against rugged canyon slopes and dark reservoir water.

Faded 1959 Hoover Dam travel frame showing sunlit canyon rock, pale sky, and part of the dam structure below. — Sunlit canyon terrain dominates the frame while the dam appears partly at the lower edge.

1959 Nevada frame showing the rocky landscape around Hoover Dam, with a road, canyon slopes, and part of the reservoir area. — The camera looks across the canyon landscape around Hoover Dam, with roads and rock formations visible.

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