Montana USA-1958: Large Lake with Rocky Hillside

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

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Large Lake with Rocky Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a large lake in Montana. The camera pans across the water, revealing a rocky shoreline with brown, arid hills rising in the background. A small boat drifts on the calm blue surface, and a concrete dam structure becomes visible along the far bank. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American landscape.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123478607

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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a quiet Montana lake landscape, dam-side cutaway, or mid-century travel-home-movie establishing view.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1958 visitor view of a large reservoir or lake, with arid rocky hills, a small boat, and a concrete dam or shoreline structure visible across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan and distant framing suggest an unstaged traveler’s observation of scenery rather than a planned commercial landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, brown rocky hills, pale shoreline roads or structures, a small boat, a concrete dam-like wall, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld movement, and uneven exposure across the lake surface.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape insert, travel transition, reservoir cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1950s American West sequence.
Historical context: The view documents recreational or roadside observation of a Montana water body and surrounding dry hills without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 8mm Montana lake footage, vintage reservoir and dam view, rocky western hills, and home movie water landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Montana travel footage, and then with broader lake, dam, road-trip, or western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a blue lake, distant rocky hills, shoreline, and a small boat on calm water. — A small boat sits on the lake below rocky hills in the distance.

1958 Montana lake view with arid rocky hills, pale shoreline features, and blue water filling the foreground. — The camera looks across blue water toward a rocky shoreline and dry hills.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing blue lake water below a rocky hillside and a concrete dam-like structure on the far bank. — A concrete shoreline structure appears below the rocky hillside across the lake.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with blue lake water, a concrete dam-like shoreline structure, and dry rocky hills in the background. — The far shore shows a concrete structure at the base of brown rocky hills.

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