Wisconsin-1969: Industrial Water Control Station

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Wisconsin

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Industrial Water Control Station — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a man-made industrial water control station in Wisconsin. The footage shows a concrete canal with a sluice gate, a small brick building with metal railings, and a distinctive white tower. A blue vintage car is parked nearby, and the water flows through the structure under a clear sky. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 footage from the era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125596096

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 1021 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: minnesota,wisconsin
Date: 1969 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: Wisconsin, 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: 1960s Wisconsin home-movie footage suited to archival requests for industrial water control, civil engineering infrastructure, canals, and municipal utility cutaways.
Period detail: The blue parked car, simple concrete works, metal railings, brick utility building, and 8mm color stock may show late-1960s public-works design and visitor access details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the sluice channel and control building from nearby walkways rather than staging action or personnel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete canal, flowing water, sluice gate, brick control building, white tower, metal railings, walkway, grass strip, and a blue vintage car.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, mild handheld framing, grain, gate edges, and color shifts that support its physical-film archival character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure insert, environmental transition, regional cutaway, or brief memory beat within a sequence about water management or public works.
Historical context: The views place engineered water control in a quiet everyday setting, showing infrastructure, access paths, and parked vehicles without visible workers or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any site or property permissions for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Wisconsin 8mm water control station, vintage canal sluice gate, industrial utility building, and home movie public works footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Wisconsin material, then broader clips of canals, dams, waterworks, utilities, and civil engineering.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a concrete water channel, brick control structure, metal railings, white tower, trees, and a blue parked car. — Concrete channel and sluice structure beside a small brick control building.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a sluice channel and industrial control station, with railings, stairs, a white tower, trees, and a blue car nearby. — Industrial water control works with walkway railings and a parked car in view.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm view down a concrete canal toward a sluice gate, brick utility building, metal railings, lamppost, walkway, and open water beyond. — View along the channel toward the sluice gate and lakeside walkway.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing the water control station from the walkway side, with canal walls, sluice gate, railings, lamppost, grass, and water beyond. — Walkway-side view of the sluice gate and concrete canal structure.

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