Montana USA-1958: Mountain Landscape Beyond The Open Waters On A Beautiful Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Montana

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Mountain Landscape Beyond The Open Waters On A Beautiful Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape beyond open waters in Montana. The wide, tranquil lake stretches across the foreground under a partly cloudy sky, with rolling hills and distant mountains forming a layered backdrop. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a subtle camera movement suggesting a handheld perspective from a boat or shoreline. A small object, possibly a buoy or distant boat, appears briefly on the water's surface. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123478584

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 1571 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: may,june,july
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: california,oregon,washington,montana,north dakota
Date: 1958 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: Montana, 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: 1950s 8mm Montana lake and mountain view suited to documentary inserts, geographic atmosphere, travel-history context, or reflective transitions.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century home-movie travel view, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signage, or date-specific objects beyond the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing on open water or shore to record the distant hills and broad lake panorama.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open lake water, distant rolling hills, darker mountain ridges, a partly cloudy sky, film gate edges, and small specks or marks on the scan.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic cutaway, location-establishing insert, memory beat, or transition between travel and landscape sequences.
Historical context: As a home-movie landscape, it documents a visitor-scale view of Montana scenery without showing identifiable residents, infrastructure, or commercial development.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location verification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Montana 8mm lake footage, vintage mountain landscape home movie, 1950s western United States travel film, and open water hills cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Montana travel footage, and then with broader vintage lake, mountain, and western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing open lake water, distant green hills, dark mountain ridges, and cloudy sky through film gate edges. — Open water stretches toward distant Montana hills and mountain ridges beneath broken cloud.

1958 Montana home-movie frame with a wide lake foreground, layered hills beyond, dark ridgeline, and visible 8mm frame borders. — A wide lake foreground leads to layered hills and a darker mountain ridge in the distance.

1958 Montana 8mm still showing lake water, distant hills, a mountain ridge, cloudy sky, and a dark strip from the scanned film edge. — The lake and hills remain steady while the 8mm frame edge and grain are prominent.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with open water, distant hills, mountain ridges, cloud cover, and dark film borders from the contact sheet scan. — Open water sits below a distant ridgeline, framed by dark edges from the film scan.

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