Nevada-1954: Close Up View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Nevada

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Close Up View Of Hoover Dam On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

NEVADA-1954: Close-up view of the Hoover Dam on a bright sunny day, captured on 8mm film. The camera pans across the massive concrete structure, highlighting its geometric design and shadowed crevices. The footage shows the dam's textured surface, with sunlight casting sharp contrasts. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic look at a 1950s engineering marvel, ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or educational content about American infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127727325

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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: 1954 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: Nevada, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm landmark footage suited to documentary or educational edits needing a close visitor-shot view of Hoover Dam in bright desert light.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color 8mm texture and a close view of Hoover Dam's concrete geometry, with the 1954 date supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a tourist or visitor perspective, lingering close on the dam face and its shadowed architectural forms rather than staging a formal overview.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the pale concrete dam wall, vertical buttress-like shadows, spillway or intake structures, dark film borders, rocky edges, and bright sunlight.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that preserve its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure cutaway, a travel-memory insert, or a transition into mid-century Nevada, engineering, tourism, or public-works material.
Historical context: The view places Hoover Dam as a monumental built landscape, emphasizing scale and concrete form without showing visitors, vehicles, signage, or activity around it.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still verify copyright status and any property or location permissions for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1954 Nevada 8mm Hoover Dam close-up, vintage home movie dam structure, mid-century American infrastructure footage, and sunny landmark cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1954 Nevada or Hoover Dam footage, and then with broader 1950s travel, infrastructure, or Southwest tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a close view of Hoover Dam's pale concrete face, shadowed vertical forms, and dark contact-sheet border. — Close-up of Hoover Dam's concrete face under bright sun.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame of Hoover Dam's upper concrete wall, with geometric shadows and visible film-frame borders. — Upper section of the dam with strong geometric shadows.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a closer section of Hoover Dam's concrete wall, shadowed recesses, and cropped film edges. — Cropped close view of the dam's wall and shadowed recesses.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame of Hoover Dam's broad concrete face, with visible curvature, shadow, and a rocky edge near the lower right. — Tight view across the curved concrete face of Hoover Dam.

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