Montana USA-1958: The Dam Releases Water in a Beautiful Cascade

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

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The Dam Releases Water in a Beautiful Cascade — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a massive dam releasing water in Montana. The wide-angle view shows a concrete structure spanning a river, with cascading water flowing through multiple spillways against a backdrop of rugged hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slightly faded colors, and a natural, unscripted feel. The camera pans slowly, revealing the scale of the dam and the surrounding landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and engineering in the American West.

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: 123479102

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 requests for 1950s American West infrastructure footage, especially documentary inserts on dams, water control, engineering, or regional travel views.
Period detail: The 8mm color image and visitor vantage may show a late-1950s home-movie view of a large Montana dam and reservoir landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distant public overlook or roadside-style viewpoint, giving the scene an unstaged visitor record of scale and movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway water, reservoir surface, rugged hills, sky, foreground rock, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, faded color, mild exposure variation, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, water-power transition, or mid-century travel memory beat.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a large water-control structure in a rural western landscape without identifying the dam or making claims about its operation.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but copyright status and any property or landmark permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Montana dam footage, 8mm reservoir spillway, vintage hydroelectric dam, and home movie water release.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Montana footage, then broader dam, reservoir, river, and American West infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm frame showing a concrete dam spillway with water cascading below a reservoir and rugged hills. — A wide spillway view shows water pouring from the dam beneath a reservoir and distant hills.

1958 Montana home-movie frame of a dam releasing water across multiple spillway sections, backed by reservoir and hills. — Water drops through several spillway openings while the reservoir and hills fill the background.

1958 Montana 8mm frame with a dam face, cascading spillway water, and a concrete building at the right side. — The view shifts toward the dam face and adjacent concrete structure as water continues to cascade.

1958 Montana home-movie frame showing the dam, reservoir, hills, and rocky overlook foreground during a water release. — A wider overlook angle places the dam and water release within the surrounding reservoir and hillside setting.

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