California USA-1971: Huge Water Dam Near Mountainous Region

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

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Huge Water Dam Near Mountainous Region — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam in California, its structure stretching across a wide river with a forested mountain rising in the background. The footage, marked by the characteristic purple and blue color cast of aged Super 8 film, shows the dam's multiple spillways and a tall control tower. The camera pans slowly across the scene, emphasizing the scale of the engineering feat against the natural landscape. The image is grainy and slightly faded, with visible film scratches and edge wear, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and historical documentation.

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: 125064325

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s California 8mm dam footage suited for documentary inserts on infrastructure, travel, reservoirs, engineering landscapes, or period home-movie views of public works.
Period detail: The clip may show an early 1970s visitor view of a large concrete dam, with a tall control tower, spillway openings, and wooded hills visible beyond the structure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the dam from a visitor-like vantage point, using a slow pan that values scale and setting over staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a broad concrete dam face, dark spillway openings, still water, a tall tower, railings, a wooded hillside, and aged film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has coarse grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and minor scratches that read as period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between nature and public-works material.
Historical context: The footage places a major water-control structure within a mountainous California landscape, reflecting a tourist or family-record perspective rather than an official survey.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should still review location, copyright, and any property or public-infrastructure permissions for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1971 California dam 8mm footage, vintage reservoir spillway home movie, and 1970s public works landscape film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California 1971 travel footage, then broader vintage dam, reservoir, mountain, and public-works imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm frame showing a broad concrete dam, still water, a tower, and a forested hill in the background. — Concrete dam structure viewed across water with a wooded hillside beyond.

1971 California home-movie frame of a concrete dam wall with multiple dark openings and a tree-covered hill beyond. — Dam wall and spillway openings seen from a steady visitor viewpoint.

Faded 1971 California 8mm view of the dam wall across calm water, with a pale wooded slope behind it. — Overexposed dam view with water in the foreground and hillside in the background.

1971 California 8mm frame showing the dam face and dark spillway openings beneath a forested mountain slope. — Dam face and hillside framed in blue-purple aged film color.

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