Montana USA-1958: Driving Past An Overflowing Dam

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

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Driving Past An Overflowing Dam — Clip Details

MONTANA USA-1958: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic view of a massive concrete dam with water cascading over its spillway, creating a powerful mist. The scene transitions to a winding road where classic American cars drive past the industrial structure, with a large building and power lines visible against the mountainous backdrop. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features natural film grain, a slightly faded color palette, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a glimpse into mid-century infrastructure and transportation in the American West.

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: 123478780

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 infrastructure, highway travel, and hydroelectric dam cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or commercial archive edits.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century road design, period automobiles, power lines, and a large concrete dam structure, with the 1958 Montana setting supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot roadside perspective, pausing on the spillway and then tracking cars moving along the curved road near the dam.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an overflowing concrete spillway, misting water, a winding road, small cars, utility poles, hillside terrain, power lines, and dam buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an infrastructure insert, travel transition, regional establishing detail, or brief memory beat between road and dam sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually connects automobile travel with large public works infrastructure in the American West without identifying the specific dam beyond the supplied Montana metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should still review copyright status and any location or property permissions before final use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Montana dam footage, vintage 8mm highway driving, overflowing spillway home movie, and mid-century American West infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana travel footage, and then broader dam, road, and Western infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana home-movie frame showing water cascading over a concrete dam spillway with mist below. — Overflowing water pours over the dam spillway in a soft, grainy 8mm frame.

Dim 1958 Montana roadside view with a curved road, a car, utility poles, and a large dam structure in the background. — A car moves along the road below the dam in a dark, underexposed frame.

1958 Montana home-movie frame of a car on a winding road near a concrete dam, with poles, hillside, and power lines visible. — A period car follows the curved road beneath the dam and power infrastructure.

1958 Montana view of a concrete dam complex with road curves, small buildings, utility poles, and a high dam wall. — The dam complex fills the frame, with roads and small structures visible below.

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