California USA-1971: Dam Spanning Reservoir With Hills In Background

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

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Dam Spanning Reservoir With Hills In Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a wide view of a massive concrete dam spanning a calm reservoir in California. The structure features a long, high wall with multiple vertical openings, set against a backdrop of tree-covered hills under a hazy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, a blueish color cast, and visible film grain and scratches. A small bird flies across the frame in one shot, adding subtle motion to the otherwise still landscape. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and natural scenery.

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: 125064308

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s California home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet infrastructure, reservoir, or landscape cutaway from amateur 8mm material.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s reservoir infrastructure through the period film stock, muted color, soft focus, and simple visitor viewpoint rather than identifiable modern details.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a visitor pausing to record a broad dam and reservoir view without staging, narration, or visible human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long concrete dam wall, calm reservoir water, wooded hills, hazy sky, foreground brush, vertical spillway openings, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries blue-tinted color, soft focus, visible grain, scratches, gate marks, and slight handheld steadiness typical of amateur 8mm footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or quiet memory beat for water management, California travel, or landscape infrastructure sequences.
Historical context: The scene places a large engineered dam within a rural hillside reservoir setting, offering visual context for mid-century public works without identifying a specific facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but dam identity, location, and any property or access considerations should be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search language includes 1971 California 8mm dam reservoir, vintage home movie concrete dam, 1970s water infrastructure, and hills beside reservoir.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel California travel footage, then with 1971 reservoir or dam material, then with broader 1970s infrastructure and landscape cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm frame showing a long concrete dam across calm reservoir water, with low wooded hills and hazy sky in the background. — A broad dam wall spans the reservoir beneath distant hills.

The dam extends across the reservoir in a soft 8mm view, with hills beyond and dark frame edges from the film scan. — The dam stretches across calm water with hills in the distance.

A wide 1971 California reservoir view shows the concrete dam wall, reflective water, distant tree-covered hills, and foreground brush. — A long section of the dam is seen across the reservoir.

The closing frame shows the dam receding across a calm reservoir, with low California hills behind it and small brush at the lower edge. — The dam and reservoir remain framed against low hills.

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