Montana USA-1958: Concrete Structure With Sky Background And Power Lines

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

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Concrete Structure With Sky Background And Power Lines — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle view of a concrete structure against a pale blue sky with scattered white clouds. The frame is bordered by dark edges, suggesting a window or viewfinder perspective. A prominent concrete pillar or chimney rises from a sloped roofline, with power lines visible in the final frames. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers a quiet, observational moment of mid-century architecture and infrastructure.

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: 123478861

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: Supports 1950s U.S. cutaway needs for documentary edits seeking a quiet exterior detail of mid-century built structure, sky, and utility lines.
Period detail: The 1958 metadata and 8mm home-movie format place the view in the late 1950s, while the visible concrete or masonry edge and overhead wires may show everyday infrastructure rather than a named landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a home-movie camera briefly aimed upward at a roofline or structural edge, recording an incidental architectural detail.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale blue sky, small white clouds, a sloped concrete or masonry edge, a vertical pillar-like form, dark film borders, and power lines near the end.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, atmospheric transition, or memory beat between scenes about place, infrastructure, construction, or domestic travel.
Historical context: The view offers a modest record of exterior built environment and utility presence in Montana home-movie footage without identifying a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 Montana 8mm structure sky, vintage home movie power lines, concrete roofline cutaway, and mid-century exterior detail.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Montana exterior footage, and finally with broader 1950s infrastructure or sky cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame looking upward at a sloped built edge and pillar-like form against pale blue sky with a small white cloud. — Low-angle exterior detail of a sloped structure and sky.

1958 Montana home-movie frame showing the same sloped concrete or masonry edge and upright form beneath a partly cloudy sky. — The vertical structural form rises above the sloped edge under scattered cloud.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with a low-angle view of a built structural edge and vertical projection set against pale sky. — A brief home-movie cutaway holds on the structure against open sky.

Final 1958 Montana frame showing the sloped structural edge and upright form with power lines entering the lower-right sky. — Power lines appear near the end of the exterior structure view.

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