Washington-1938: Metal Towers Topped With Cranes Run Across A Dam With Flood

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Washington

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Metal Towers Topped With Cranes Run Across A Dam With Flood — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this archival footage captures a massive dam under construction in Washington. The black-and-white film shows metal towers topped with cranes spanning the structure, with water flowing over the spillway. Industrial machinery and scaffolding dominate the scene, set against a backdrop of overcast mountains. The grainy, vintage quality and subtle camera movement evoke a sense of mid-20th century engineering ambition. This historic home movie offers a rare glimpse into early 20th-century infrastructure development.

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: 127414317

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: Washington, 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 suited to documentary or educational requests for New Deal-era infrastructure, dam construction, river control, and Pacific Northwest industrial engineering visuals.
Period detail: The steel trestles, crane-topped towers, black-and-white 8mm stock, and large spillway works may show late-1930s dam construction in Washington.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot vantage point, observing the dam works from a distance rather than staging workers, ceremonies, or machinery demonstrations.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steel towers, overhead cranes, scaffolding, spillway water, a broad dam face, river valley, overcast mountains, and a distant industrial worksite.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, low-contrast monochrome exposure, mild gate weave, vertical scratches, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, transition into hydroelectric or flood-control history, or visual memory beat for 1930s construction.
Historical context: The view places heavy industrial construction within a mountain river landscape, suggesting public works scale without identifying a specific dam beyond the supplied Washington metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should verify copyright status and any site or property permissions separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Washington dam construction, 8mm spillway footage, crane towers on dam, river control works, and 1930s hydro infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Washington 1938 dam or river footage, and then with broader themes of public works, spillways, cranes, and industrial construction.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing steel towers and crane structures crossing a dam construction site against a mountain backdrop. — Crane-topped steel towers extend across the dam works.

Wide 1938 Washington view of dam construction, with lattice towers, elevated crane tracks, and mountain slopes in the distance. — Industrial framework stretches across the dam site below the mountains.

1938 Washington 8mm frame showing spillway water beneath steel supports and a partially framed dam structure. — Water passes below the steel-framed dam works.

Wide 1938 Washington frame of a dam worksite, showing spillway flow, steel scaffolding, and hazy mountain terrain. — The dam worksite opens onto spillway water and a mountain valley.

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