Fort Wayne Indiana-1974: A Beautiful Dam

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 Fort Wayne Indiana

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A Beautiful Dam — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil waterfront scene in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The clip pans across a wide river or harbor, revealing weathered wooden pilings in the foreground and a distant shoreline. A prominent red and white navigational marker stands in the water, while industrial cranes and a yellow gantry crane appear on the far bank. The sky is a deep blue with scattered white clouds, and the footage exhibits the characteristic color saturation and grain of Super 8 film. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s industrial waterfront life, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or historical projects.

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: 124445915

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: 1974 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: Fort Wayne, Indiana, 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: 1970s 8mm waterfront footage suited to editorial sequences needing industrial river, dam, or harbor cutaways from a Midwestern home-movie source.
Period detail: The scene shows 1974-era color home-movie views with wooden pilings, a red water marker, cranes, open shoreline, and saturated blue sky.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the waterfront from a visitor or resident vantage point, valuing the quiet pan across water and working shoreline over staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling water, grassy foreground, wooden pilings, a red navigational marker, distant shoreline, cranes, and a dockside gantry structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, saturated color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, industrial waterfront cutaway, transition, or reflective memory beat within a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The clip records a modest industrial waterside view with navigation structures and cranes, offering context for everyday infrastructure rather than a documented event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location identification, and any property-related use questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 8mm Fort Wayne waterfront, 1970s industrial river scene, home movie dam view, cranes by water, and vintage harbor pilings.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Fort Wayne or 1974 waterfront footage, then broader 1970s industrial waterway and dam-related scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Fort Wayne waterfront view with rippling water, pilings in the foreground, a red marker in the channel, and low shoreline under clouds. — A red water marker stands beyond weathered pilings on a calm waterfront.

Fort Wayne 1974 waterfront frame showing pilings in the water, a red channel marker, distant industrial crane, and broad blue sky. — Pilings and a red marker line up against a distant industrial shoreline.

1974 home-movie frame of a Fort Wayne waterside scene with pilings, red marker, distant crane, and yellow dockside equipment. — The camera pan brings dockside cranes and equipment into view along the water.

Fort Wayne 1974 waterfront view with foreground grass, pilings in the water, yellow gantry crane, distant structures, and clouded sky. — A yellow gantry crane and pilings frame the end of the brief waterfront pan.

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