Montana USA-1958: Building Roof Mountains Snow Power Lines

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

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Building Roof Mountains Snow Power Lines — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view from a high vantage point in Montana. The camera pans across a steep, textured roofline and a prominent chimney, revealing a vast landscape of rolling hills and distant snow-capped mountains under a pale blue sky. Power lines stretch across the frame, and the grainy, slightly faded color palette evokes a nostalgic mid-century American feel. The footage offers a quiet, contemplative glimpse of rural Montana life and its rugged natural beauty.

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: 123478867

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 establishing material, rural mountain cutaways, or mid-century home-movie inserts showing built structures against snowy terrain.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm footage may show mid-century residential or lodge-style roof construction, overhead power lines, and a mountain horizon in Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the informal value of a visitor or resident turning a camera from a high vantage point toward a roofline and distant landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steep shingled roof, chimney, power lines, pale sky, wooded hills, snow-capped mountains, and a utility structure or tower.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge artifacts.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, transition between rural scenes, or reflective memory beat for mountain-region material.
Historical context: The view connects a domestic or small-building foreground with Montana mountain scenery and rural electrical infrastructure, without showing people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-identification concerns for their use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Montana 8mm roof mountains, vintage home movie snow-capped mountains, and rural power lines mountain landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Montana material, then with rural mountain landscapes, roofs, snow, or power-line cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a steep roof plane, chimney, pale sky, and faint overhead lines. — Steep roof and chimney framed from a high angle under a pale sky.

1958 Montana view past a steep roof toward power lines, dark hills, and snow-capped mountains. — Roofline leads the eye toward hills and distant snow-covered peaks.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with a steep roof in the foreground and snowy mountains beyond the hills. — Foreground roof and overhead wires against a distant mountain horizon.

1958 Montana frame showing a roof edge, overhead wires, snowy peaks, hills, and a tower-like structure at right. — Power lines cross above a roofline with hills, snowy peaks, and a tower at right.

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