Washington-1939: Dam Releasing Water in Cascading Flow

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Washington

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Dam Releasing Water in Cascading Flow — Clip Details

Black and white 8mm home movie footage from 1939 captures a dam releasing water in a natural setting. The clip shows a long, low dam structure with water cascading over its edge, creating a continuous flow and mist. The surrounding landscape features a large, dark hillside in the background and rocky terrain in the foreground. The image has the characteristic grain, scratches, and soft focus of vintage 8mm film, viewed through a dark frame border. The scene is captured during daylight, with the water's movement providing the primary action.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127736534

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 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: Washington, 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: 1930s Washington dam footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief archival view of water release infrastructure in a rural landscape.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frame, soft focus, and simple visitor viewpoint support the 1939 home-movie dating, while the dam and hillside remain unidentified.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the spillway from a distance without staging, preserving a quiet visitor-shot record of moving water, rocks, and surrounding terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long low spillway, falling water, mist, dark hillside, rocky foreground, reflective water surface, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through visible grain, scratches, soft focus, contrast shifts, and slight framing drift around the contact-print edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, environmental insert, transition, or memory beat for water management, travel, landscape, or regional history sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows a dam release in a natural Washington setting, offering visual context for everyday filming of infrastructure and landscape before the site is identified.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location permissions, and any property or agency identification should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Washington 8mm dam footage, black-and-white spillway home movie, vintage water release, and rural hydro landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel water or landscape shots, then other 1939 Washington footage, then broader dam, river, reservoir, or public-works imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing a low dam releasing water, with mist, rocks, reflective water, and a dark hillside in the background. — Water drops over a long low dam as mist rises against a dark hillside.

1939 Washington 8mm frame of water cascading over a dam, seen across a rocky shoreline with a dark hillside behind the spillway. — A broad spillway runs across the frame with water and spray moving below it.

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing foaming water beneath a low dam, with a dark sloped hillside filling much of the background. — Foam and mist gather below the dam while the hillside dominates the background.

1939 Washington 8mm frame showing a dam spillway, falling water, foreground rocks, and a dark hillside through a vintage film border. — Falling water lines the spillway as rocks and dark terrain frame the scene.

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