Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: River Dam With Trees In The Background And Showing

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

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River Dam With Trees In The Background And Showing — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage footage captures Bonneville Dam in Oregon, showcasing water cascading through its gates with powerful force. The dam's concrete structure stands against a backdrop of forested mountains, highlighting early 20th-century engineering. The grainy black-and-white imagery and film edge vignette evoke a strong sense of historical authenticity, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century infrastructure and industrial progress. This archival home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

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: 127260476

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 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 8mm footage of Bonneville Dam helps solve requests for New Deal-era infrastructure, hydroelectric engineering, river control, and Pacific Northwest industrial landscapes.
Period detail: The concrete dam walls, spillway gates, railings, and black-and-white 8mm image may show late-1930s public works design and visitor-era documentation at Bonneville Dam.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the dam from fixed overlooks and emphasizing the scale of water, concrete, and machinery rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include spillway water, concrete dam faces, gate structures, railings, forested hills, shadowed channels, and rounded film-edge vignetting.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, high-contrast black-and-white exposure, slight gate jitter, and dark edge vignettes that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for hydroelectric power, river management, Oregon travel, or public works memory sequences.
Historical context: The views place a large engineered river structure against forested mountains, suggesting the visual contrast between industrial infrastructure and Pacific Northwest terrain.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or agency permissions for the dam location.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1938 8mm Bonneville Dam footage, Oregon hydroelectric dam home movie, Columbia River dam gates, or vintage public works infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Bonneville Dam or Oregon footage from 1938, then broader dam, river, hydroelectric, and public works material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bonneville Dam view showing water pouring from a spillway below concrete gates, with forested slopes in the background. — Water rushes from the dam spillway beneath concrete gates and a wooded hillside.

Bonneville Dam in Oregon, filmed in 1938, with water discharge visible beneath the concrete gate structure and trees beyond. — A bright plume of water appears at the base of the dam gates with trees behind the structure.

Visitor-like 1938 view along Bonneville Dam, looking into a concrete channel with metal gate grids, railings, and water below. — The camera looks down a concrete dam channel toward large metal gate grids and shadowed water.

1938 Bonneville Dam footage showing a concrete wall, gridded gate structures, railings, and dark water inside the dam channel. — Concrete walls and gridded gates define the dam channel, with dark water visible at the base.

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