Bonneville Dam Oregon-1938: Workers At Dam And Mountain Road Scenery

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

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Workers At Dam And Mountain Road Scenery — Clip Details

BONNEVILLE DAM OREGON-1938: Workers in hard hats stand on a concrete dam structure, with a mountainous backdrop. The scene transitions to a scenic road winding through a forested landscape, leading toward a snow-capped mountain peak. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays grainy texture and vintage film artifacts, capturing a moment of mid-20th century infrastructure and natural beauty. The black-and-white imagery evokes a sense of historical documentation and nostalgic Americana.

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: 127260522

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Pacific Northwest infrastructure, travel, and landscape sequences needing brief 8mm views of Bonneville Dam workers and mountain-road scenery.
Period detail: Hard hats, dam railings, black-and-white 8mm texture, and the visitor viewpoint support a late-1930s public-works and road-travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, moving from people observing or working near the dam to a scenic road view framed from a traveler’s perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dam concrete, railings, hard-hatted men, distant hills, a forest road, utility poles, trees, and a snow-capped mountain.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, frame-edge shadows, and small scratches that place the footage in a physical home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, travel transition, or memory beat connecting New Deal-era infrastructure with Pacific Northwest scenery.
Historical context: The footage visually links a major Oregon dam site with nearby mountain travel scenery without documenting a specific construction event in these frames.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location access, and any property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1938 Bonneville Dam 8mm footage, Oregon dam workers, Pacific Northwest road to snow-capped mountain, or 1930s home-movie travel scenery may match.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Bonneville Dam material, then with 1938 Oregon or Columbia River Gorge footage, then with 1930s infrastructure and mountain-road travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Bonneville Dam view showing hard-hatted men on a concrete structure with railings and a mountainous backdrop. — Workers or visitors in hard hats stand on the dam structure beside metal railings.

Oregon mountain-road scenery from the 1938 clip, with trees, utility poles, and a snow-capped peak beyond the road. — A forest road leads toward a snow-capped mountain peak.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a road descending through forest toward a snow-capped mountain in Oregon scenery. — The camera frames the road and roadside trees below the mountain.

Late-1930s Oregon travel scenery with a road, dense trees, utility poles, and a snow-capped mountain peak. — A mountain peak dominates the road view through the forested landscape.

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