Montana USA-1958: Massive Dam With Water Flowing Over Spillway

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

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Massive Dam With Water Flowing Over Spillway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam in Montana. The footage shows the dam's imposing structure with water cascading over its spillway, power lines running along its face, and a winding road at its base. The grainy, color-bleached aesthetic of the Super 8 film gives it a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and engineering.

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: 123478798

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 archival requests needing Montana infrastructure, hydroelectric engineering, dam tourism, or mid-century public works cutaways.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm footage may show period roadways, utility lines, and visitor views around a large concrete dam in Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the dam from a distance without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam face, spillway water, mist, utility wires, a road at the base, low hills, cloudy sky, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm color softness, blue cast, grain, slight blur, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about water, power, or western landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually places large-scale water control and power infrastructure within a mid-century American travel or home-movie record.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but users should still confirm copyright status and any location or property permissions needed for their use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 Montana dam 8mm footage, vintage spillway home movie, mid-century hydroelectric dam, and archival concrete dam footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana footage, then broader vintage dam, water, engineering, and road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a large concrete dam from a distance with utility lines, a base road, hills, and cloudy sky. — A distant view of the dam face with wires crossing the structure and a road below.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing the dam wall near the spillway, with utility lines and dark film gate edges visible. — The camera frames the dam wall near the spillway edge, crossed by utility lines.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing water pouring over the dam spillway beside a concrete wall, with wires and mist visible. — Water begins to dominate the frame as it flows over the spillway beside the dam wall.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a wide spillway release, concrete dam structures, mist, utility wires, and cloudy sky. — A wider view of water spilling over the dam, with mist rising below the concrete structure.

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