California USA-1971: Bridge Crossing Over Water Being Filmed From Across With

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

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Bridge Crossing Over Water Being Filmed From Across With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large concrete dam spanning a wide river in California. The camera pans slowly across the structure, revealing its multiple spillways and a central tower flying an American flag. A tree-covered hill rises in the background under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, a distinct blue color cast, and visible film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century infrastructure and archival Americana.

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: 125064327

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s California infrastructure requests needing short home-movie views of a dam, bridge-like crossing, or river control structure for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The 1971 8mm metadata is supported by the clip record, while the visible scene shows a concrete water-control structure, tower, flag, and wooded hillside without further identifiable landmark detail.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from across the water, with a slow observational pan rather than staged action or narrated coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad concrete dam or bridge crossing, calm river water, spillway openings, a central tower, an American flag, a wooded hillside, pale sky, and edge foliage.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture, with blue color cast, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame dust that support its archival character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, river transition, or quiet memory beat within a California or 1970s public-works sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century concrete water structure as seen by a private camera, offering visual context for travel, landscape, and public infrastructure without identifying the site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or agency permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 California 8mm dam footage, vintage home movie river crossing, concrete spillway across water, and archival public infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1971 California waterway or dam material, then with broader vintage infrastructure, travel, or Americana footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm view of a concrete water-control structure across a river, with a tower and wooded hillside in the background. — A concrete dam or bridge-like crossing spans calm water below a hillside.

Soft 8mm frame showing a concrete dam or bridge-like water structure in California, with a tower, flag, and wooded hill beyond. — The camera holds on the dam face, tower, and hillside across the water.

1971 8mm home-movie frame of a concrete dam or spillway across a wide river, with a tower, hillside, and foreground foliage. — A wider pan angle reveals spillway sections and foliage near the frame edge.

Blue-cast 8mm frame of a California concrete water-control structure, with calm river water, a tower, hillside, and dark foliage at right. — The final frame shows the structure across the river with dark foliage framing the right side.

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