Lake Powell Arizona-1968: Slow Pan Across Blue Reservoir Inlets as a Speedboat Carves a Wake

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationLake Powell, Arizona, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Lake Powell, Arizona, United States

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What is in this clip

desert reservoir
boating recreation
American Southwest travel
family road trip
canyon landscape
water in the desert
1960s vacation

Shot type: extreme wide
Camera: pan · handheld · high angle looking down over the water
Setting: outdoor · desert reservoir with layered sandstone points and inlets, seen from a high rocky viewpoint
Time and weather: midday · summer · clear and sunny
Lighting: hard direct sunlight with short dark shadows under the rock ledges
People: 0 · No people are distinguishable; the speedboat is too distant to show its occupants.
Vehicles: small white speedboat
Landmarks: Lake Powell
Objects: speedboat · boat wake · sandstone ledges · rock spit · desert grass · foreground boulder
Colors: deep blue · tan · rust red · pale green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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High view over stepped sandstone ledges with green grass in the foreground and blue water behind.
The pan opens onto a wide blue inlet bordered by layered rock points.
A small white speedboat enters the inlet in the middle distance.
The boat turns across the water, leaving a curved white wake.
The shot settles on a sunlit rock spit with pale green shallows.

Slow Pan Across Blue Reservoir Inlets as a Speedboat... — Clip Details

Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona, circa 1968 home movie footage. From a high rocky viewpoint the camera pans slowly across deep blue reservoir water winding between layered red and tan sandstone points, with a tuft of green grass in the foreground. Midway through, a small white speedboat enters the inlet and draws a curving wake. The single handheld shot ends on a sunlit rock spit with pale green shallows at its edge.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000010

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1968 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: Lake Powell, 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.
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits requests for 1960s amateur views of Lake Powell during its filling years, for documentaries on Glen Canyon, the Colorado River or Southwest recreation.
Period detail: The reservoir, which began filling in 1963, already floods the side inlets, a pale band marks the waterline, and a small open speedboat of a type common in the 1960s crosses the water.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor's slow scenic pan from a high viewpoint, following the landscape rather than the boat, typical of a traveller recording a stop on a road trip.
What appears in frame: Deep blue water, layered red and tan sandstone points, a small white speedboat with a curved wake, a clump of green grass, a red foreground boulder and a sunlit rock spit with green shallows.
Film character: Slightly soft small-gauge colour film with visible grain, saturated blues, warm rock tones, a gentle handheld pan and darkened corners from the projected transfer.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot for a Lake Powell sequence or as a scenic transition between canyon and bridge material.
Historical context: The clip shows recreational boating on the reservoir within about a decade of Glen Canyon Dam beginning to store water in 1963, well before the lake first reached full pool in 1980.
Research note: No faces, signs or logos are visible and the boat is distant and unmarked; copyright in the film is a separate matter from any likeness or property questions, and the Arizona placement rests on signs elsewhere on the reel.
Research search match: Lake Powell 1960s home movie, vintage speedboat on desert reservoir, Glen Canyon amateur film, blue water red sandstone inlets, Arizona road trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's cross-bedded slickrock dome and Zion clips, then with other 1960s Lake Powell or Glen Canyon footage, then with vintage desert boating and Southwest road trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Layered sandstone ledges and blue reservoir water at Lake Powell, Arizona, circa 1968, with desert grass in the foreground of a home movie frame. — The pan begins on stepped sandstone ledges above the blue water of Lake Powell, circa 1968.
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Blue inlet winding past a layered sandstone point at Lake Powell, Arizona, circa 1968, seen from a high viewpoint with a red boulder below. — The water widens into an inlet bordered by layered rock points, with a pale band along the waterline.
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Small white speedboat carving a curved wake between red sandstone points on Lake Powell, Arizona, circa 1968, in a high-angle home movie view. — A small white speedboat turns through the inlet, drawing a curved wake on the blue water.
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Sunlit sandstone spit with green shallows and banded cliffs on Lake Powell, Arizona, circa 1968, at the end of a home movie pan. — The shot ends on a sunlit rock spit, with pale green shallows at its tip and banded cliffs behind.
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