Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: Classic Cars Driving Near Historic Dam and Fish Ladders

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationBonneville Dam, Oregon, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Bonneville Dam Oregon

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Classic Cars Driving Near Historic Dam and Fish Ladders — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage footage captures classic American automobiles driving through a quiet town near Bonneville Dam in Oregon. The black-and-white clip shows a prominent white building with a flagpole, likely a local civic structure, as vintage cars pass by on a paved road. The scene includes a detailed informational sign for the Bonneville Fish Ladders, constructed and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of home movie footage from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century transportation and infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260302

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Bonneville Dam, Oregon, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s documentary requests needing Bonneville Dam-area travel, public works tourism, or prewar American road traffic in authentic 8mm home-movie form.
Period detail: The frames show late-1930s automobiles, black-and-white 8mm exposure, a formal dam-area building, and a Bonneville Fish Ladders sign tied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on passing cars and the fish ladder sign rather than staged action or official construction activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include classic cars on a paved road, a white building with arched doors, a flagpole, trees, distant hills, and a Bonneville Fish Ladders information sign.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel transition, or period memory beat for Oregon and Columbia River public works stories.
Historical context: The imagery places visitor mobility and federal dam infrastructure in the same view, showing how the site was encountered by motorists in the late 1930s.
Research note: No people are visible, but the government sign text and any visible marks should be reviewed for identification, copyright, trademark, and property-context concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 Bonneville Dam home movie, Oregon fish ladders, 1930s cars near dam, U.S. Army Corps sign, and black-and-white 8mm infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Bonneville Dam or Oregon footage, then broader 1930s road travel and public works material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bonneville Dam-area view with vintage cars on a paved road, a white building, flagpole, trees, and distant hills. — Vintage automobiles pass near a white building at the Bonneville Dam site.

Bonneville Dam-area road scene from 1938 showing classic cars, a white building, a flagpole, trees, and hazy hills. — Cars move along the road in front of a dam-area building and flagpole.

Close view of a Bonneville Dam and Bonneville Fish Ladders sign noting U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operation. — An informational sign identifies the Bonneville Fish Ladders.

Bonneville Fish Ladders sign at the dam site, with U.S. Army Corps wording and a diagram softened by 8mm focus. — The camera holds on the Bonneville Fish Ladders sign and diagram.

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