Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: Water Cascading Over Spillways

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

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Water Cascading Over Spillways — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this archival footage captures the Bonneville Dam in Oregon with water powerfully cascading over its spillways. The black-and-white image shows the dam's concrete structure against a backdrop of forested hills, with a small control building visible on the left. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of vintage home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century industrial infrastructure and hydroelectric power generation.

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: 127260441

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 edits needing real 8mm views of hydroelectric infrastructure, river control, or Pacific Northwest public works imagery.
Period detail: The concrete spillway face, simple control structure, forested hills, and black-and-white 8mm texture support the stated 1938 Bonneville Dam setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reads as a visitor-shot landmark view, holding on the dam from across the churning water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the spillway gates, cascading water, foaming river surface, concrete buttresses, small upper structure, treeline, and mountain backdrop.
Film character: Soft focus, moderate grain, edge vignetting, and slight frame instability give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, infrastructure insert, transition into hydroelectric power themes, or brief memory beat for 1930s travel footage.
Historical context: The frames show large-scale dam infrastructure set within a forested river landscape, emphasizing water power and engineered control of a natural setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Bonneville Dam 1938 8mm footage, Oregon hydroelectric dam home movie, 1930s spillway water, vintage public works river footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Bonneville Dam or Oregon footage from 1938, then broader 1930s hydroelectric and public works material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 8mm view of Bonneville Dam in Oregon with water cascading from concrete spillways below forested hills. — Water pours from the dam spillways as hills and trees rise behind the concrete structure.

Bonneville Dam spillway section in 1938 home-movie footage, with white spray below the concrete gates and hills in the background. — The camera holds on the dam face as water churns below the spillway openings.

Vintage 8mm frame of Bonneville Dam showing repeated concrete spillway bays, mist, and a wooded hillside beyond. — Repeated spillway bays stretch across the frame with mist rising from the water below.

Bonneville Dam in Oregon seen in a soft 1938 8mm frame, with rushing spillway water and a dark mountain backdrop. — A wide view shows rushing water below the dam and a mountain slope behind it.

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