Maine-1971: Dam and Reservoir with Flowing Water

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMaine, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Maine

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Dam and Reservoir with Flowing Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a concrete dam and reservoir in Maine. Water flows over the spillway, creating white rapids against rocky banks, with a small white control building visible on the dam. Lush green trees frame the scene, and the footage shows natural film grain and slight camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century infrastructure and nature.

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: 125770645

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 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
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: Maine, 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: 1970s 8mm footage for productions needing a concise archival view of Maine water infrastructure, reservoir scenery, or rural public-works cutaways.
Period detail: The concrete dam, small white control structure, rocky banks, and dense trees may show early 1970s visitor-shot views of a Maine reservoir site.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or local resident pausing to film moving water and the dam from a fixed overlook rather than a staged survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete spillway, white water, rock ledges, reservoir edge, small white control building, vertical film-frame borders, and surrounding green trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and slight handheld movement that preserve the texture of a short home-movie observation.
Edit role: Editors could use it as an infrastructure insert, environmental transition, rural Maine cutaway, or quiet memory beat between travel or landscape scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually connects engineered water control with a wooded Maine landscape, without identifying a specific dam or making claims about its operation.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property-access questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Maine 8mm dam footage, vintage reservoir spillway, home movie water infrastructure, and rocky river rapids archival cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Maine footage, then similar reservoir, dam, spillway, river, or public-works scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a concrete dam, spillway flow, rocky shoreline, trees, and a small white control building. — Concrete dam and reservoir spillway seen across rocky banks in wooded Maine.

1971 Maine home-movie frame of a dam and reservoir edge, with white water, rock ledges, and dense trees behind the structure. — Water flows over the dam as rocks and trees frame the reservoir structure.

1971 Maine 8mm view of spillway water dropping beside rock ledges, with a concrete wall, small building, and trees in the background. — A closer view of spillway water rushing past the concrete dam and rocks.

1971 Maine frame showing foamy water below a concrete spillway, rocky foreground, wooded hillside, and a small white control structure. — Foamy spillway water moves below the dam, with wooded terrain behind it.

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