Arizona USA-1939: Desert Dam And Power Line In Rugged Landscape

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Desert Dam And Power Line In Rugged Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a rugged Arizona desert landscape. The footage features a massive concrete dam nestled in arid hills, with a winding dirt road carved into the rocky terrain. A small boat floats on the reservoir below, while a towering power line structure stands against a clear blue sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of mid-century Americana and historical infrastructure development in the Southwest.

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: 124761103

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Southwest infrastructure, desert travel, hydroelectric landscape, or public works cutaways in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1930s dam and power infrastructure, with an unpaved road, arid hills, and reservoir setting consistent with the supplied Arizona home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the dam, road, reservoir, and power tower from nearby overlooks rather than presenting a staged industrial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, dark reservoir water, rocky desert hills, a winding dirt road, a small boat, blue sky, and a steel power line tower.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that support its original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure insert, Arizona travel cutaway, desert landscape transition, or brief memory beat within a wider 1930s sequence.
Historical context: The footage places water and electrical infrastructure within a sparse desert landscape, showing how monumental engineered structures sat amid rugged terrain.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, property, and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Researchers may find it through searches for 1939 Arizona 8mm dam footage, desert reservoir home movie, Southwest power line, or vintage public works landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Arizona 1939 desert or infrastructure scenes, then broader dam, reservoir, road, and power-line footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Arizona home-movie view of a concrete dam, dark reservoir water, and rugged hills with a road cut into the slope. — Concrete dam and reservoir set below rocky desert terrain.

Arizona desert dam scene with reservoir water in the foreground and a winding road climbing through rocky terrain. — Dam, reservoir, and winding road in an arid canyon landscape.

Home-movie frame of rugged Arizona hills and a pale road curving through dry terrain near the dam site. — Road cut through rocky desert hills near the dam.

Steel power transmission tower on a desert ridge in Arizona, filmed in soft 8mm color against clear blue sky. — Power line tower rising from a rocky desert ridge.

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