Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: Learning About The Wildlife On An Informative Guide

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

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Learning About The Wildlife On An Informative Guide — Clip Details

A close-up shot of an informational sign at Bonneville Dam in Oregon, dated 1938, explaining the function of fish ladders. The black-and-white 8mm film shows the text clearly, describing how fish navigate inclined waterways with small dams or weirs. The grainy texture and slight vignette effect are characteristic of vintage home movie footage. This archival clip offers a historical glimpse into early 20th-century wildlife management and engineering education.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260327

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$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

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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: 1930s Bonneville Dam visitor footage for productions needing a concise archival cutaway about fish ladders, wildlife passage, or public engineering interpretation.
Period detail: The sign text and metadata support Bonneville Dam, Oregon in 1938, with the close framing emphasizing period educational display design rather than broader site architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on an explanatory sign so the viewer can read how fish move through stepped pools and weirs.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the fish ladder sign, printed block text, a diagram panel above it, rough outdoor ground, a low railing, frame edges, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and dark rounded edge vignetting from the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an informational insert, location-establishing cutaway, or quiet transition within sequences about dams, salmon passage, or New Deal-era infrastructure.
Historical context: The footage documents how a public visitor display explained wildlife passage at Bonneville Dam, linking engineering works with fish movement for nontechnical audiences.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any site-display or agency material rights should still be checked.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1938 Bonneville Dam fish ladder sign, black-and-white 8mm Oregon dam visitor footage, and archival home movie wildlife passage display.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Bonneville Dam Oregon views, then related fish ladder, dam, river, and wildlife-management footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bonneville Dam visitor footage showing a close-up of an informational sign explaining fish ladders and stepped pools. — Informational sign describes how Bonneville fish ladders let fish move between pools and weirs.

Close view at Bonneville Dam, Oregon, of a fish ladders display describing inclined waterways crossed by small dams or weirs. — The sign explains the basic structure of Bonneville fish ladders and the series of pools.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of the Bonneville fish ladder sign, with readable text on pools, weirs, and fish movement. — A tighter view keeps the sign text legible while the outdoor setting remains partly visible.

Bonneville Dam sign footage showing printed guidance on fish passage, framed by dark 8mm edge vignetting. — The final frame holds on the same interpretive sign with visible 8mm edge darkening.

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