California USA-1971: Concrete Dam Spanning Water Reservoir

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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Concrete Dam Spanning Water Reservoir — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large concrete dam spanning a wide body of water, likely a reservoir or river. The scene is framed by a tree on the right and a distant hill, with the dam's multiple arches and spillways clearly visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, blue color cast, film grain, and scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene, observational view of this mid-century infrastructure in California.

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: 125064307

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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s California infrastructure requests needing observational home-movie footage of a concrete dam and reservoir for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The scene may show early-1970s public works infrastructure through the 8mm stock, static tourist framing, concrete dam face, distant hills, and subdued color typical of home movies from the period.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the dam from across the water without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, broad water surface, spillway openings, vertical piers, distant hillside, tree branches at frame edges, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, blue-gray color shift, grain, exposure variation, scratches, and contact-sheet gate edges that read as physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short infrastructure insert, regional establishing cutaway, reservoir transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1970s California sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a large engineered water-control structure in a California landscape, but the exact dam, reservoir, and public-agency context should be verified before identification.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or agency permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1971 8mm California dam footage, vintage reservoir home movie, concrete spillway across water, and 1970s public works cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 California exteriors, then reservoir, dam, water-management, or roadside travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spanning water, with a hazy hillside behind it and foliage along the right edge. — Concrete dam seen from across a reservoir or river, with hillside and tree framing.

Soft 8mm view of a California concrete dam across still water, framed by dark gate edges and a tree on the right. — Static home-movie view of the dam, reservoir water, and distant hillside.

1971 California frame of a concrete dam and spillway bays across water, with faint hills and visible film scratches. — Dam structure and spillway openings stretch across the water in a hazy landscape.

Final 8mm frame holds on the California dam face with vertical piers, still water, distant hill, and dark frame edge. — The clip ends on the dam face and reservoir, with hillside behind the structure.

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