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Wyoming USA-1939: Old Steaming Cascading Waterfall And A Car Driving Past A

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1939
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationWyoming, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1939 Wyoming

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Old Steaming Cascading Waterfall And A Car Driving Past A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, showing a steaming cascading waterfall with terraced mineral formations. The scene captures a natural geothermal feature with mist rising from the water, set against a rocky hillside. A car drives past in the background, and a couple stands observing the landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and dark vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century American travel and nature exploration.

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
121490131

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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Wyoming, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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

  • car
  • water
  • waterfall
  • mountain
  • hill
  • steaming
  • cascading
  • driving
  • rocky
  • nature
  • wyoming USA
  • 1939
  • 1939 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • steaming waterfall
  • cascading water
  • mineral terraces
  • geothermal feature
  • classic Super 8
  • archival footage
  • retro travel
  • old film
  • nature documentary
  • historic landscape
  • nostalgic travel
  • American road trip
  • vintage car
  • family vacation
  • 1930s travel
  • old film grain
  • dark vignette

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1930s American travel, national-park-style nature, geothermal landscape, or archival road-trip sequences needing real 8mm Wyoming home-movie footage.
Period detail
The small distant visitors and muted color 8mm stock may show late-1930s tourist filming, while the exact site and vehicle details are not clearly identifiable in these frames.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering on steaming terraces and a rocky backdrop while a couple stands at the edge of the landscape.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include pale terraced mineral formations, rising steam or mist, dark film borders, a rocky hillside, sparse vegetation, distant visitors, and a brief landscape view.
Film character
The footage carries soft 8mm grain, color fade, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role
Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, travel insert, memory beat, or transition into archival material about Wyoming landscapes, geothermal sites, or early leisure travel.
Historical context
The footage reflects a tourist encounter with a dramatic natural feature, with people observing from a distance rather than a staged or narrated scene.
Research note
People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, location, and any site permissions should be reviewed separately before commercial or sensitive use.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1939 Wyoming 8mm home movie geothermal waterfall, steaming terraces, rocky hillside travel footage, and vintage American nature tourism.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Wyoming or 1939 travel clips, and then with broader geothermal, waterfall, mountain, or road-trip archive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a pale terraced geothermal waterfall or mineral formation with steam rising and dark film borders.
Steam rises from pale terraced formations in a dark-edged 8mm travel frame.
1939 Wyoming 8mm frame of steaming terraces with a distant standing visitor near the right edge, partly obscured by dark film borders.
A distant visitor stands near the steaming terraced formation.
1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing pale steaming terraces with two distant visitors near the right edge and a dark vertical frame border.
Two distant figures observe the steaming terraced landscape.
1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a rocky hill, sparse vegetation, pale sky, and dark film edge from a home-movie travel sequence.
The view shifts from the steaming terraces to a rocky Wyoming hillside.

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