Arizona-1962: Concrete Dam with Towers in Desert

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Arizona

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Concrete Dam with Towers in Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam structure in a rugged desert landscape, likely in Arizona. The footage shows the dam's distinctive towers and spillway, with the long shadows of two people visible on the water's surface, suggesting a family visit. The warm, faded color palette and film grain evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgia. The camera pans slightly, revealing the surrounding arid mountains and the scale of the engineering feat. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about American infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127740849

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 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: Useful for requests needing early 1960s 8mm home-movie views of American dam infrastructure, desert engineering, or Arizona travel footage for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 1962 8mm source, faded color, concrete intake towers, and visitor shadows may show a mid-century family stop at a large desert dam in Arizona.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, with two human shadows falling across the dam surface as the camera looks from an overlook or walkway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include concrete dam towers, dark water or spillway surface, long human shadows, rocky desert mountains, arid slopes, and distant utility structures.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief cutaway, infrastructure insert, travel-memory beat, or transition between desert landscape and public works material.
Historical context: The footage visually connects leisure travel with large-scale water-control infrastructure in an arid western landscape, without identifying the exact dam from the frames alone.
Research note: Human presence appears only as shadows, but likeness, location, copyright, and any site-use restrictions should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Arizona dam footage, vintage desert infrastructure home movies, concrete spillway towers, and mid-century western travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Arizona 1962 travel footage, then broader archival themes of dams, desert roads, and public works.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm frame of concrete dam structures in an Arizona desert setting, with two visitor shadows cast across the water or spillway surface. — Concrete dam towers and elongated visitor shadows in a desert landscape.

Concrete intake or spillway towers appear against arid hills, with visitor shadows visible on the dam surface in this 1962 Arizona home-movie frame. — Visitor shadows fall across the dam surface near concrete towers.

A wide 8mm view shows rugged Arizona desert mountains rising above concrete dam buildings and a dark water or spillway area. — Rugged desert hills frame the dam structures below.

Concrete dam buildings sit below steep arid mountains, with faint utility structures visible in the distance in this 1962 Arizona 8mm frame. — Concrete dam structures sit below steep desert terrain.

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