Wyoming USA-1939: Volcano Spewing Ash

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

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Volcano Spewing Ash — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, capturing a dramatic volcanic eruption. The grainy, monochrome film shows a towering plume of ash and smoke rising into the sky, with dark silhouettes of trees visible at the edges. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—film grain, scratches, and slight fading—evoking a sense of historical urgency and natural power. This archival clip offers authentic, unfiltered documentation of a geological event, perfect for historical or environmental storytelling.

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: 121490507

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: 1930s Wyoming 8mm footage suited to documentary inserts about geothermal activity, landscape observation, or natural-force imagery in archival sequences.
Period detail: The frames show a distant pale plume behind dark tree silhouettes, with no visible signage, buildings, clothing, vehicles, or landmarks to independently confirm the exact site.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the plume from a fixed outdoor vantage rather than a staged or newsreel setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall pale plume, smoky drifting edges, dark tree shapes, open sky, soft landscape silhouettes, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries muted exposure, visible grain, scratches, gate shadowing, and slight registration softness consistent with small-gauge home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, atmospheric insert, transition, or evidence-like memory beat for a sequence about landscape, geology, or travel.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a plume seen from a distance in Wyoming-attributed home-movie material, but the frames alone do not verify the exact geological source.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though users should still review copyright status and confirm any site or event identification before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Wyoming 8mm plume footage, vintage home movie geothermal steam, archival natural-force landscape, and distant ash or smoke column.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wyoming 1939 material, then broader 1930s travel, geology, eruption, smoke, or steam imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming-attributed 8mm frame showing a pale vertical plume or steam column beyond dark foreground tree shapes. — A tall pale plume rises in the distance behind silhouetted trees.

Wyoming-attributed 1939 home-movie frame with a pale plume partly obscured by dark tree or edge silhouettes. — The plume remains visible through dark vertical foreground shapes.

1939 Wyoming-attributed 8mm frame showing a brighter plume with darker smoky shapes along the lower edge. — A brighter plume fills the frame as darker smoke-like forms gather below.

Wyoming-attributed 1939 frame with a tall pale plume rising near dark foliage and heavy edge shadowing. — The pale column stands out against dark foliage and shadowed frame edges.

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