Montana USA-1958: River Bridge And Dam With Mountain Landscape

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

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River Bridge And Dam With Mountain Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a long arched bridge spanning a wide river in Montana. The camera pans slowly left, revealing a concrete dam structure on the riverbank. Rolling hills and mountains rise in the background under a partly cloudy sky. The footage shows classic Super 8 color saturation with visible grain and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American landscape. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 123478640

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 Montana archive requests needing a brief landscape view of river infrastructure, a bridge, and mountain scenery for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, arched bridge, concrete riverside structure, and mid-century home-movie framing support the supplied 1958 Montana dating without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the river crossing from an elevated visitor viewpoint, panning across the bridge and dam rather than staging any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad river, long arched bridge, concrete dam structure, distant trees, rolling mountains, dry foreground grasses, and partly cloudy sky.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild vignetting, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with a scanned home-movie reel.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a mid-century American landscape sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a road bridge and river-control structure within a mountainous Montana setting, without showing identifiable people, vehicles, signage, or commerce.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or infrastructure permissions needed for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Montana 8mm river bridge footage, vintage dam landscape, mid-century mountain river home movie, and arched bridge archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana river or mountain views, then broader vintage American bridge, dam, and road-trip landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a wide river crossed by a long arched bridge with mountains and clouds beyond. — Long arched bridge spans a broad river below dry hills and a partly cloudy sky.

1958 Montana 8mm view of an arched bridge crossing a river, with shoreline trees and mountain ridges in the background. — The bridge continues across the river as the camera pans along the mountain shoreline.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with a concrete dam or riverside structure beside the arched bridge and broad river. — A concrete structure appears at the riverbank as the bridge and hills remain in view.

1958 Montana 8mm view of a riverside concrete dam structure with a bridge, dry grasses, water, and mountain landscape. — The pan settles on the concrete riverside structure, bridge span, river, and dry foreground grasses.

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