Montana USA-1958: Water Flowing Heavily Over Dam Due to Heavy Rain

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

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Water Flowing Heavily Over Dam Due to Heavy Rain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a massive dam releasing water under a cloudy sky. The footage shows powerful cascades flowing over the spillway, with a long arched bridge spanning the structure. The scene is framed by dark borders, showing natural film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 footage. The water flows heavily, suggesting recent rainfall, and the overall mood is one of industrial power and natural force. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure in Montana.

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: 123478818

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: Useful for 1950s U.S. infrastructure, weather aftermath, hydroelectric, river-control, or Montana travel-history sequences needing real 8mm home-movie dam footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, film borders, and mid-century bridge-and-dam view support a late-1950s home-movie reading without identifying the specific structure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the dramatic spillway from a distance rather than staging any action or guided industrial view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad dam spillway, heavy sheets of water, an arched bridge or roadway, cloudy sky, distant hills, dark film-frame borders, and a small dam-side building.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, gate shadows, slight blur, and contact-print framing that give the scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as an insert, transition, or cutaway for rain, flood-control, hydroelectric power, river management, Montana travel, or mid-century infrastructure stories.
Historical context: The view documents a public-facing look at large-scale water control and road infrastructure as captured by a home-movie camera in 1958 Montana.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess underlying film copyright and any location-specific property or infrastructure restrictions.
Research search match: Searches this clip may answer include 1958 Montana dam spillway, vintage 8mm dam overflow, heavy rain water release, arched bridge over dam, and home movie hydro infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana footage, then broader archive material on dams, rivers, heavy rain, bridges, and mid-century public works.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a dam spillway with heavy water flow, a bridge-like structure along the top, cloudy sky, and dark film borders. — Heavy water pours over the dam spillway under a cloudy sky.

1958 Montana home-movie frame of water cascading over a broad dam, with an arched top structure, distant hills, cloudy sky, and film-frame edges. — A broad spillway releases heavy water across the dam face.

Soft 1958 Montana 8mm view of a dam spillway, arched bridge or roadway, heavy flowing water, cloudy sky, and visible film wear near the lower edge. — The camera holds on the spillway as water sheets down the dam.

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing heavy water rushing over a dam, an arched bridge-like structure at the crest, distant hills, cloudy sky, and dark frame borders. — Heavy spillway flow continues beneath the arched structure at the dam crest.

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