Wyoming USA-1939: Geyser Erupting into Sky

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

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Geyser Erupting into Sky — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1939 showing a geyser erupting in Wyoming. The black and white film displays classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and dust typical of archival 8mm footage. The sequence captures the geyser's powerful eruption, with a plume of water and steam shooting high into the sky against a cloudy backdrop. The image is framed by dark borders, emphasizing its authentic, unedited home movie quality. This historic clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century natural phenomena and amateur filmmaking.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121490485

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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Wyoming natural-landscape requests needing authentic home-movie footage of a geyser eruption for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The 8mm black-and-white stock, dark frame edges, and visible handling marks support a late-1930s home-movie origin, while the visible scene itself is a natural geyser plume.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the eruption from a fixed or lightly handheld position without staging or presenter-led action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a geyser plume, steam or spray, cloudy sky, dark film-frame borders, soft exposure variation, and surface scratches across the scanned image.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, gate-edge darkness, dust, scratches, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film texture from an amateur travel record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short natural-history insert, travel-memory beat, transition into Wyoming landscape material, or cutaway for geothermal activity.
Historical context: The footage documents an early amateur view of a Wyoming geyser as a travel or sightseeing subject, without visible people, buildings, signage, or identifying markers in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify source copyright status and confirm any location-specific permissions required for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Wyoming geyser footage, black-and-white 8mm home movie, vintage geyser eruption, geothermal landscape, and archival travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming or 1939 travel footage, and then with broader geyser, geothermal, national-park, or nature archive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a faint geyser spray or steam plume rising against a cloudy sky with dark film borders. — A soft, dark-edged view of the geyser plume beginning or continuing against the sky.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from the Wyoming geyser clip, dominated by cloudy sky and dark vertical film-frame borders. — The eruption is mostly out of view or faint, leaving cloudy sky and film borders prominent.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with geyser spray and steam rising low in the frame, crossed by a dark film-frame edge. — A stronger burst of spray appears near the lower frame, with the film border cutting through the view.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from the 1939 Wyoming geyser shot, showing faint steam haze beneath cloudy sky and dark gate edges. — The plume softens into haze while cloudy sky and the scan's dark borders remain visible.

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