California-1938: Water Dam In The Mountains Shown From Two Different Angles

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 California

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Water Dam In The Mountains Shown From Two Different Angles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a water dam in California from two different angles. The footage shows water cascading over the dam structure with a rugged mountain backdrop under a bright sky. The warm, faded color palette and visible film grain give the clip a nostalgic, archival quality. The camera remains mostly static, offering a steady view of the natural and man-made landscape. This historic 8mm home movie provides a rare glimpse into mid-20th century American infrastructure and rural scenery.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127417597

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 California infrastructure requests needing brief documentary cutaways of a dam, spillway, river water, and mountain landscape from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s recreational or travel filming of a concrete water-control structure, with no visible signs, vehicles, or people to narrow the location further.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the dam from across the water as an amateur record of a scenic engineering landmark rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low dam or spillway, cascading white water, a dark rock or structure in the river, rugged hills, bright sky, and small foreground rocks.
Film character: The 8mm image carries faded color, soft focus, uneven exposure, frame jitter, grain, dust, and contact-print borders that mark it as physical home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short infrastructure insert, scenic transition, regional establishing cutaway, or memory beat within a 1930s California travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a man-made water structure within a dry mountain setting, suggesting how amateur travelers recorded public works and landscapes in the late 1930s.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 California 8mm dam footage, vintage spillway home movie, mountain reservoir water release, and 1930s infrastructure landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1938 travel footage, then broader 1930s dam, river, mountain, and public-works scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing a dam or spillway, white cascading water, a dark river feature, and pale hills in the background. — Wide home-movie view of a dam and spillway set below dry mountain slopes.

1938 California home-movie frame of water pouring over a dam, with a dark rock or structure in the river and rugged hills beyond. — Water pours over the dam as the camera looks across the river toward the hills.

1938 California 8mm frame showing the spillway from a slightly different angle, with foreground water and hazy mountain slopes in back. — A second angle frames the dam, river, and mountain backdrop in soft 8mm color.

1938 California 8mm frame showing the dam and river from another angle, with rocks in the foreground and a small structure near the right edge. — The final frame holds on the spillway, foreground rocks, and a small structure at the right side.

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