Montana USA-1958: Man In Red And Black Flannel Coat Stands Near Dam

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

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Man In Red And Black Flannel Coat Stands Near Dam — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a man in a red and black plaid flannel coat standing near a massive concrete dam in Montana. The sequence shows the dam's structure against a backdrop of rugged mountains under a partly cloudy sky, with water releasing in powerful cascades. The camera pans across the scene, highlighting the scale of the engineering feat and the natural landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123478663

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 Montana home-movie dam footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about mid-century travel, public works, or western landscapes.
Period detail: The clip shows 1958 8mm color footage with a plaid flannel coat, concrete dam structures, and visitor-style framing that may reflect mid-century road-trip sightseeing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an informal visitor viewpoint, with a partly seen person near the dam and handheld views that feel observed rather than staged.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway water, rugged mountains, cloudy sky, rocky foreground, reservoir water, and a red-and-black plaid coat.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of an original home movie scan.
Edit role: Editors could use it as an insert, cutaway, transition, or memory beat for travel, infrastructure, water management, or western landscape sequences.
Historical context: The scene places a large dam and reservoir within a mountain setting, showing how a home-movie camera recorded public infrastructure as a travel subject.
Research note: A person is partly visible, so copyright, likeness, and any dam or site-use questions should be reviewed separately before final use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1958 Montana dam home movie, 8mm reservoir spillway, vintage western United States infrastructure, and man in plaid near dam.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Montana travel footage, then other 1958 dam or reservoir clips from the region, then broader mid-century infrastructure views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a concrete dam, reservoir water, rocky foreground, brush, mountains, and partly cloudy sky. — A distant view of the dam and reservoir set against rugged mountain terrain.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with a partially visible person in a red-and-black plaid coat near a concrete dam and mountain reservoir. — A visitor in plaid is partly framed beside the dam and mountain reservoir.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing water cascading over a concrete dam spillway with arched spans and a structural support. — Water releases over the dam spillway in a close view of the concrete structure.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing the dam spillway releasing water below arched concrete spans with distant mountain slopes. — The spillway fills the frame as water rushes down from the dam.

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