Montana USA-1958: Concrete Dam with Water Cascade in Valley

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

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Concrete Dam with Water Cascade in Valley — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a massive concrete dam nestled in a rugged mountain valley. The footage shows water cascading over the dam's spillway, with a wide river flowing through the canyon below. The landscape features rolling hills and rocky cliffs under a partly cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and natural scenery in Montana.

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: 123479112

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 8mm footage supports documentary requests for mid-century dam infrastructure, canyon landscapes, and visitor-shot views of major public works.
Period detail: The clip may show 1958-era leisure travel around a large concrete dam, with period cues coming from the 8mm color stock, distant visitors, and scenic roadside viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on the dam, spillway, valley, and river as a traveler records the scale of the landmark from overlooks.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway water, blue river, rocky canyon walls, rolling hills, distant buildings, visitors, and a partly cloudy sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that give the scenery clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat between broader Western landscape or public-works sequences.
Historical context: The views place engineered infrastructure within a rugged mountain landscape, suggesting how home-movie travelers documented public works alongside scenic recreation.
Research note: People appear only at a distance, with no readable logos seen; copyright, likeness, and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Montana dam home movie, 8mm canyon river footage, vintage spillway landscape, and mid-century public works travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Montana dam or river views, and then with broader vintage infrastructure and Western landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Montana 8mm view of a large concrete dam, white spillway water, rocky slopes, and tiny distant visitors near the overlook. — Concrete dam and spillway seen from a high scenic viewpoint above a rugged valley.

Vintage 8mm frame of a Montana dam set below rolling hills, with a rocky canyon wall and distant valley structures visible. — The dam sits below hills and canyon rock, framed by dark 8mm film edges.

1958 Montana home-movie view looking across the dam area toward hills and a rocky foreground from an elevated overlook. — A high overlook frames the dam area against layered hills and open sky.

Vintage 8mm Montana view of a blue river flowing through a rugged canyon with steep banks and scattered shoreline vegetation. — The river runs through the canyon below, with rocky slopes and bright water texture.

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