Nevada-1954: Large Water Dam Spillway in Rocky Canyon

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

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Large Water Dam Spillway in Rocky Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a massive water dam in Nevada from an elevated perspective. The footage shows turbulent water cascading through the dam's spillway, with powerful currents and white foam churning below. The concrete structure features multiple gates and machinery, set against rugged, rocky canyon walls. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century infrastructure and engineering.

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: 127727396

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 suited for documentary or educational requests about mid-century water infrastructure, dams, engineered landscapes, and visitor views of the American West.
Period detail: The concrete dam structure, spillway gates, and saturated 8mm color may show a mid-century visitor record of large-scale infrastructure in a rocky Nevada canyon.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a tourist or family traveler filming from an elevated overlook, holding on the spillway action and nearby canyon water rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam wall, spillway channel, foaming water, dark blue reservoir, rocky canyon sides, machinery or railings, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, strong blue color shift, high contrast, slight handheld movement, and contact-sheet frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader Nevada landscape and water-management material.
Historical context: The views place a large engineered water-control structure within a rugged canyon setting, visually linking mid-century travel footage with western infrastructure and landscape change.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still verify copyright status and any property or location permissions needed for their production.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Nevada dam footage, 8mm spillway home movie, vintage reservoir and canyon water, and mid-century infrastructure travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Nevada footage, and finally broader dam, reservoir, canyon, or western infrastructure sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spillway, churning white water, and rugged rock walls from an elevated angle. — Concrete spillway and turbulent water seen from above in a rocky canyon.

Elevated 1954 Nevada home-movie view of dam gates, spillway turbulence, blue water, and canyon rock along the edge. — Dam machinery and spillway water framed by blue reservoir and canyon rock.

1954 Nevada 8mm frame with a concrete spillway, whitewater turbulence, shadowed dam face, and rugged canyon edge. — Whitewater churns below the dam spillway in a canyon setting.

1954 Nevada 8mm view of deep blue reservoir water, pale shoreline, and distant rocky canyon wall, with a small bright speck on the water. — Reservoir water and rocky canyon shoreline after the dam spillway view.

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