Montana USA-1958: Vehicles Travel On A Bridge On A Quiet Body Of Water Under A

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

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Vehicles Travel On A Bridge On A Quiet Body Of Water Under A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil scene at a dam in Montana. A long concrete bridge spans a calm blue reservoir, with vehicles crossing under a partly cloudy sky. The camera pans slowly across the structure, revealing arid hillsides and sparse vegetation in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a peaceful glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and natural landscapes.

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: 123478647

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: This 1958 Montana 8mm clip suits requests for mid-century U.S. infrastructure, reservoir landscapes, and quiet travel cutaways.
Period detail: The concrete dam or bridge, sparse roadside vegetation, and small vehicles may show late-1950s regional travel and public works scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, with the camera slowly observing the water crossing from a nearby hillside rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a long concrete crossing, small vehicles, arid hills, foreground grasses, rocks, and a partly cloudy sky.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a western U.S. sequence.
Historical context: The view places mid-century road travel beside a managed water landscape, with built infrastructure framed against dry hills and open sky.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions require separate review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Montana 8mm dam, vintage reservoir bridge traffic, home movie western U.S. infrastructure, and quiet water crossing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Montana travel shots, then other 1958 regional landscapes, then broader reservoir, bridge, and road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm view of a concrete dam or bridge crossing a reservoir below dry hills and scattered clouds. — A long concrete crossing spans quiet water beneath arid hills and a partly cloudy sky.

1958 Montana home-movie frame showing a concrete water crossing, reservoir surface, hillside, and foreground grasses. — Foreground grasses edge the view of a concrete structure crossing the reservoir.

1958 Montana 8mm frame of a concrete dam or bridge beside still water, with rocks and grasses in the foreground. — The camera pan brings rocks and dry vegetation into the foreground below the crossing.

1958 Montana home-movie view of a reservoir crossing framed by foreground rocks, grasses, dry hills, and clouds. — Rocks and grasses frame the final view of the reservoir crossing and surrounding hills.

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