Montana USA-1958: Dam Releasing Water Down Rocky Hillside

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

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Dam Releasing Water Down Rocky Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a powerful view of a dam releasing water in Montana. The footage shows a concrete structure with green metal gates, water cascading down in a wide, turbulent flow against a rocky hillside. The scene is bright and clear under a sunny sky, with visible film grain and slight camera shake typical of Super 8 home movies. The perspective shifts slightly, offering a dynamic look at the dam's operation and the force of the rushing water.

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: 123478684

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 8mm footage for productions needing an archival dam, water-management, infrastructure, or Western landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The concrete spillway, green metal gate housings, and home-movie framing may show mid-century public works viewed by a traveler or visitor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the force of released water from a fixed overlook rather than a staged industrial view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam face, green gate structures, rushing white water, rocky hillside, dark film borders, and a partial foreground structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and slight handheld instability that give it clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure insert, travel transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat about water and landscape.
Historical context: The footage visually places a dam release within a sunny Western outdoor setting, without identifying the specific facility or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any site or property restrictions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Montana dam footage, 8mm dam releasing water, vintage spillway home movie, and 1950s water infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Montana scenes, then related dam, river, reservoir, or Western travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spillway with green gate structures and water rushing down the face. — Water pours over a concrete dam spillway below green metal gate structures.

1958 Montana home-movie frame with green dam gates above a wide sheet of released water on a concrete face. — A wide sheet of water cascades from the dam gates in bright daylight.

1958 Montana 8mm frame emphasizing turbulent water moving down the concrete dam spillway. — The camera frames the spillway more tightly as water rushes across the concrete surface.

1958 Montana frame showing the dam’s water release, a diagonal line across the spillway, and a partial foreground structure. — A partial foreground structure appears as water continues down the spillway.

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