Arizona USA-1939: Video Taken From Standing On Top Of A Dam Looking Down At River

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Video Taken From Standing On Top Of A Dam Looking Down... — Clip Details

ARIZONA USA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic aerial view from the top of a massive dam, looking down at a turbulent river flowing through a rugged canyon. The footage shows the dam's concrete structure and a winding road carved into the steep, arid mountainside. The river rushes below with churning green and white water, highlighting the scale of the engineering feat. Shot on 8mm film, the clip features natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame edges of a home movie, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and industrial progress.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124761150

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: 1930s Arizona home-movie dam footage for documentary or educational sequences needing visitor-shot views of large-scale water infrastructure and canyon terrain.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1930s visitor view from a concrete dam, with arid canyon slopes, a carved road, and turbulent river water below.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged tourist viewpoint from high on the dam, looking outward and downward to register scale rather than documenting a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include concrete dam walls, rushing green-white river water, a winding canyon road, steep rocky slopes, pale reservoir or spillway surfaces, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, engineering cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between canyon landscape and water-control imagery.
Historical context: The footage places water infrastructure within an arid Southwestern canyon landscape, showing the dam from a visitor vantage without identifying the structure by name.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location access, and any property or landmark restrictions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1930s Arizona dam home movie, 8mm canyon river footage, vintage dam overlook, Depression-era water infrastructure, and visitor-shot river view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Arizona dam or canyon views, then broader archival footage of rivers, dams, and Southwestern infrastructure.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Arizona home-movie frame showing a high view over a rugged canyon, winding road, and river beside a dam structure. — A visitor's elevated view looks across canyon slopes, a winding road, and river water near the dam.

1939 Arizona frame looking from the dam toward a winding road, rocky canyon walls, and river water below. — The high vantage shows the dam foreground, a carved road, and river moving through the canyon.

1939 Arizona home-movie frame looking down the concrete dam structure toward turbulent green-white river water. — The camera looks down past concrete dam walls to agitated water far below.

1939 Arizona frame showing a steep downward view of dam concrete and swirling river water below. — A high-angle view emphasizes the drop from the dam structure to the swirling water beneath.

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