Nevada-1954: A Massive Concrete Dam With Geometric Buttresses

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

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A Massive Concrete Dam With Geometric Buttresses — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam in Nevada, its geometric buttresses casting sharp shadows across the sunlit surface. The footage, likely from an aerial or high-angle perspective, shows the dam's imposing scale and mid-century engineering design, with rocky terrain visible at its base. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film scratches evoke a strong sense of historical nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of a significant public works project from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127727365

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Nevada 8mm footage for documentary or educational edits needing a brief view of a large concrete dam and mid-century public-works scale.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1954 visitor or aerial view of a massive concrete dam with angular buttresses, pale concrete, and rocky terrain below.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a traveler-shot landmark view, observing the dam from above without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the dam face, triangular buttress shadows, a vertical tower-like structure, curved concrete edges, dark rock, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, faded color, gate weave, frame lines, scratches, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, engineering cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about dams, infrastructure, or Nevada landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually places large-scale concrete infrastructure within a mid-century travel-film context, without identifying a specific dam beyond the Nevada metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or landmark permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1954 Nevada 8mm dam footage, vintage concrete dam home movie, and mid-century public works travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Nevada 1954 footage, then related 1950s infrastructure, dams, desert travel, and public-works views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a large concrete dam face, curved edge, dark rock, and strong shadow across the structure. — A high view looks down across the dam face and rocky base.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame of the dam wall, a tall vertical structure, angular shadows, and rocky terrain along the side. — The dam wall fills the frame with a tower-like structure near the top.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing the pale dam face and geometric shadows from projecting buttress forms. — Angular shadows cross the pale concrete face of the dam.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame of a sunlit concrete dam face in Nevada, with repeated geometric shadows and a tower-like element above. — Repeated shadows emphasize the dam's geometric concrete forms.

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