Montana USA-1958: Water Overflowing From Dam Spillway

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

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Water Overflowing From Dam Spillway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a massive concrete dam in Montana releasing water over its spillway. Turbulent white water cascades down the structure into the river below, with a calm reservoir stretching behind it and rolling hills under a partly cloudy sky. The footage shows the dam's full scale and engineering, with visible roads and infrastructure along the shoreline. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film borders evoke a nostalgic mid-century American industrial landscape.

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: 123479070

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: 1950s Montana home-movie footage for productions needing a concise archival view of dam infrastructure, spillway release, and mid-century American water-control landscapes.
Period detail: The concrete dam, reservoir, access roads, and faded 8mm color may show a late-1950s visitor view of large-scale public works in Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of a visitor-shot landmark view, observing the spillway from a fixed vantage without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the concrete spillway, rushing white water, calm reservoir, rolling hills, shoreline roads, dam structures, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, environmental transition, or brief memory beat about water management and travel.
Historical context: The footage visually places a major dam within a broad reservoir and rural mountain landscape, without identifying the structure beyond the Montana metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property considerations for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Montana dam spillway, 8mm reservoir footage, vintage hydroelectric dam, and home movie water release.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Montana views, then dam, reservoir, river, infrastructure, and mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spillway, reservoir, rolling hills, and turbulent water below. — A concrete dam releases water over the spillway with the reservoir and hills behind it.

1958 Montana home-movie view of a dam spillway releasing white water, with reservoir and hills in the background. — White water pours over the dam spillway while the reservoir remains calm behind the structure.

Montana 1958 8mm frame with the dam spillway closer in view and foaming water filling the lower frame. — The camera frames the spillway more tightly as water churns below the concrete dam.

1958 Montana 8mm footage frame showing a broad spillway release, reservoir, hills, and visible film borders. — The spillway continues releasing water across the dam, framed by the dark edges of the film scan.

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