Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: Dam Construction With Transmission Towers And Mountain Backdrop

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationBonneville Dam, Oregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Bonneville Dam Oregon

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Dam Construction With Transmission Towers And Mountain... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this archival footage captures the Bonneville Dam in Oregon during its construction phase. The black-and-white scenes show the massive concrete structure and intricate electrical transmission towers rising against a backdrop of rugged mountains. A crane operates near the dam's base, highlighting the scale of the engineering project. The footage, with its characteristic grain and vignette, offers a rare glimpse of mid-20th century infrastructure development in the Pacific Northwest.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127260411

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

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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 or educational edits needing archival infrastructure footage of Bonneville Dam construction and hydroelectric development in the Pacific Northwest.
Period detail: The concrete dam works, lattice transmission structures, crane, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s public works setting at Bonneville Dam.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from across the water, observing the dam and construction works without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dam spillway structures, electrical transmission towers, a crane, concrete buildings, water, forested slopes, rugged mountains, and film-edge vignetting.
Film character: The footage shows coarse 8mm grain, soft contrast, slight handheld framing, and dark rounded frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, location insert, or transition for stories about New Deal-era infrastructure, hydroelectric power, or Pacific Northwest engineering.
Historical context: The views place large-scale dam construction and power transmission equipment within a mountain and river landscape, without showing workers or public ceremonies.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Bonneville Dam footage, Oregon dam construction, vintage hydroelectric infrastructure, transmission towers, and Pacific Northwest public works.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1938 Bonneville Dam or Oregon material, and then with broader dam construction or hydroelectric power footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm view of Bonneville Dam in Oregon, showing concrete dam structures, lattice transmission equipment, water, and a mountain backdrop. — Bonneville Dam structures and transmission towers seen from across the water.

Bonneville Dam construction view with concrete buildings, electrical tower framework, water in the foreground, and rugged Oregon terrain behind. — Electrical infrastructure rises above the dam works with mountains in the background.

Archival 8mm frame of Bonneville Dam construction, showing a crane near concrete works and dense transmission structures against a mountain backdrop. — A crane stands near the dam construction works below transmission towers.

1938 Bonneville Dam view showing spillway water discharge, concrete control structures, and forested land beyond the dam. — Water pours through the dam spillway below concrete control structures.

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