Arizona USA-1939: Horse-Drawn Wagon and Dam Construction

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Horse-Drawn Wagon and Dam Construction — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a covered wagon pulled by horses traveling along a winding road through a forested landscape in Arizona. The scene transitions to a massive concrete dam with water reservoirs, showcasing early 20th-century industrial engineering. The footage features natural lighting, film grain, and slight motion blur typical of Super 8 home movies, evoking a nostalgic view of American infrastructure and rural life during the Great Depression era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761094

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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: 1939 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: Arizona, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Arizona archive requests needing rural travel imagery alongside large-scale water infrastructure for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The wagon footage and concrete dam works may show late-1930s travel and infrastructure details consistent with the supplied 1939 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a roadside wagon view to observational views of a dam and reservoir without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a horse-drawn covered wagon, winding road, trees, concrete dam walls, reservoir water, bridge-like structures, rocky slopes, and film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld blur, uneven exposure, grain, and gate edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or contrast cutaway between rural mobility and New Deal-era infrastructure themes.
Historical context: The footage visually links rural road travel with engineered water control in Arizona, without identifying a specific dam or construction project from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Arizona 8mm home movie, horse-drawn wagon road footage, vintage dam reservoir, and Depression-era infrastructure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Arizona travel footage, then other 1939 Arizona material, then broader 1930s rural transport and dam infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Arizona home-movie frame showing a soft, blurred horse-drawn covered wagon on a winding roadside with trees nearby. — A horse-drawn covered wagon moves along a tree-lined road in a soft, handheld frame.

1939 Arizona home-movie view of a large concrete dam area with dark reservoir water and dry rocky terrain. — A concrete dam and reservoir appear from an elevated visitor viewpoint.

1939 Arizona dam scene showing concrete walls, reservoir water, support towers, and a dry slope in the foreground. — The camera looks across reservoir water toward concrete dam structures and rocky banks.

1939 Arizona home-movie frame of a dam complex with reservoir water, concrete supports, and arid surrounding slopes. — A similar elevated view frames the dam, reservoir, and surrounding dry terrain.

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