Montana USA-1958: Aerial View Of A Parking Lot And Hillside

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

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Aerial View Of A Parking Lot And Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this clip captures an aerial view of a parking lot and hillside in Montana. The footage shows vintage American cars from the late 1950s parked in neat rows, with a mix of colors including red, white, and teal. The scene is framed by a concrete barrier and overlooks a sloped hillside with sparse vegetation. Power lines stretch across the sky, and the grainy, slightly faded color palette is characteristic of home movie footage from the era. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123478893

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 Montana or mid-century American travel edits needing an elevated parking-lot cutaway with cars and hillside surroundings.
Period detail: The parked cars, faded color stock, concrete edges, and open hillside may show late-1950s roadside or overlook infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from above, lingering on a parking area and nearby hillside rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include vintage cars, marked parking spaces, concrete curbs, a sloped hillside, sparse vegetation, a tall utility structure, and a roofline or barrier.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, and steady framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, location cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century road-trip material.
Historical context: The scene suggests automobile-centered public space in the 1950s, with an overhead view emphasizing parking layout and surrounding terrain.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and property-status review should remain separate.
Research search match: 1958 Montana 8mm aerial parking lot, 1950s cars overhead view, home movie hillside parking area, mid-century American road travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Montana material, then broader 1950s roadside, parking, hillside, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame looking past a roofline or barrier toward a sloped hillside and tall utility structure. — Elevated view toward a hillside, roofline, and utility structure.

1958 Montana overhead parking-lot view with late-1950s cars, concrete curbs, and a sloped edge nearby. — Rows of cars seen from above in a paved parking area.

1958 Montana frame showing an angled overhead view of parked cars, painted spaces, and concrete lot edges. — Angled view across a parking lot filled with mid-century cars.

1958 Montana 8mm frame of a parking lot from above, with clustered cars, striped spaces, and hillside terrain at the edge. — Clustered cars and parking stripes seen from an elevated viewpoint.

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