California-1938: Dam And Telephone Poles By The Waterside By The Mountains

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

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Dam And Telephone Poles By The Waterside By The Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage California footage captures a large concrete dam with water flowing through its gates, set against a backdrop of rugged mountains. The camera pans across the structure, revealing railway tracks in the foreground and yellow safety bollards along a road. Telephone poles line the route, and a power substation is visible near the dam's powerhouse. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century industrial landscape.

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: 127417620

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 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 industrial landscape requests needing dam, water-control infrastructure, mountains, and utility corridor atmosphere in archival 8mm footage.
Period detail: The concrete dam, rail lines, telephone poles, and subdued color 8mm stock may show late-1930s public works and utility infrastructure without identifying a specific facility.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld roadside viewpoint gives an unstaged visitor record of the dam and waterside infrastructure rather than a formal engineering survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, flowing water, mountain slopes, rail tracks, telephone poles, a waterside road, and industrial structures near the dam.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate weave, light exposure variation, and handheld motion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief industrial cutaway, regional transition, infrastructure insert, or memory beat for travel and public-works sequences.
Historical context: The footage places water-control, transport, and utility features together in a mountainous California setting, offering visual context without proving a named project.
Research note: People may be visible at a distance, so likeness is likely minimal but should be reviewed separately from copyright and any site or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 California 8mm dam footage, vintage hydroelectric infrastructure, mountain reservoir scenes, telephone poles by water, and home-movie public works.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1938 California locations, then broader dam, reservoir, rail, telephone-pole, and mountain infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 California 8mm frame showing a concrete dam against mountains, with rail tracks in front and small distant people or figures near the structure. — Concrete dam and rail tracks seen from a waterside vantage, with mountains beyond.

1938 California 8mm frame looking along the dam toward an industrial building, rail tracks, mountain backdrop, and a yellow roadside bollard. — Dam structure and adjoining industrial building with tracks running across the foreground.

1938 California 8mm frame showing turbulent water by rocks, leaning telephone poles, a utility pole, and hazy mountains in the background. — Telephone poles stand beside rushing water and rocks below the mountain slope.

1938 California 8mm frame of foaming waterside flow below a mountain slope, with rocks and a telephone pole near the edge of the water. — Foaming water and shoreline rocks below a mountain slope near utility poles.

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