Montana USA-1958: Long Concrete Bridge Spanning Large Body Of Water

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

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Long Concrete Bridge Spanning Large Body Of Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a long concrete bridge spanning a vast body of water in Montana. The dam-like structure features multiple arches and runs along a rugged, arid hillside under a partly cloudy sky. The footage, with its characteristic grain and color palette, offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and natural landscapes. The camera pans slowly, revealing the scale of the engineering feat and the surrounding terrain. Ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123478622

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Montana home-movie footage for productions needing a brief infrastructure cutaway of a long bridge or dam-like crossing over a broad body of water.
Period detail: The 8mm color and mid-century concrete span may show 1958-era road or dam infrastructure against a rugged, sparsely developed Montana landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, panning from a distant vantage point to register the bridge, water, hillsides, and scale of the crossing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a long concrete arched span, rocky hillsides, sparse roadside structures, partly cloudy sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, handheld movement, and contact-print edge shadows that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, geographic transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat within a travel or regional-history sequence.
Historical context: The view places engineered concrete infrastructure within an arid mountain-and-water setting without showing traffic, workers, or identifiable public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but bridge or dam identity, land status, copyright, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1958 8mm Montana bridge footage, home movie dam crossing, concrete arched bridge over water, or mid-century Western infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana views, then broader bridge, dam, reservoir, road-trip, and Western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a long concrete bridge or dam-like span over blue water beside rugged hills. — A long concrete crossing runs along a hillside above a broad body of water.

1958 Montana home-movie view of a concrete arched crossing beside blue water and dry mountain slopes. — The span and shoreline remain in view as the camera tracks across the water.

Soft 8mm frame of a long concrete crossing over water, with Montana hills and sparse structures in the background. — Repeating concrete arches are seen from a distant visitor viewpoint.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing the concrete bridge from farther along the pan, with mountains, sky, and water visible. — The pan widens to show the bridge, surrounding hills, water, and partly cloudy sky.

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