Arizona-1969: A Splendid Dam In The Mountainous Sea

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Arizona

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A Splendid Dam In The Mountainous Sea — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a large dam structure nestled in a rugged mountainous landscape. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the concrete dam with multiple spillway gates and a curved intake tower, surrounded by dark, rocky terrain. The image exhibits classic 1960s film grain, slight color fading, and a bright horizontal light flare across the bottom of the frame. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and engineering in a remote desert setting.

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: 127474703

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 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: Arizona, 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: 1960s Arizona home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for desert infrastructure, dam engineering, reservoir landscapes, or mid-century travel cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s visitor view of a concrete dam, with visible spillway structures, intake towers, rugged terrain, and faded 8mm color consistent with the supplied 1969 date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a tourist or family camera paused on a distant landmark, recording the dam from an elevated overlook rather than staging any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam wall, spillway gates, cylindrical towers, dark water, rocky slopes, scrubby shoreline, and a bright film flare along the lower edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries coarse grain, soft focus, color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between desert landscape and engineering sequences.
Historical context: The scene places a large water-control structure within a mountainous Arizona landscape, offering visual context for mid-century tourism and infrastructure observation without identifying the dam.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or agency permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Arizona dam home movie, 8mm reservoir footage, vintage desert infrastructure, concrete spillway gates, and mountain dam landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Arizona 1969 travel footage, and then with broader vintage dam, reservoir, and desert infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Arizona 8mm frame showing a concrete dam, spillway structures, towers, reservoir water, and rugged mountain slopes. — Distant view of a dam structure set against rocky terrain and dark water.

1969 Arizona home-movie frame of a dam and reservoir, with concrete towers, spillway forms, and steep rocky terrain in the background. — Dam infrastructure and reservoir water viewed from a distant overlook.

Faded 8mm frame from Arizona in 1969 showing the dam wall, reservoir, low towers, shoreline brush, and rocky slopes. — Lower view across water toward the dam wall and shoreline terrain.

1969 Arizona 8mm frame showing a concrete dam across dark water, backed by steep desert mountains and a vertical film scratch. — Dam wall and reservoir framed against a steep mountain slope.

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