Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Trees Hills And The Sky All Surrounded By Nature

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYellowstone, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Trees Hills And The Sky All Surrounded By Nature — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The footage features bare trees in the foreground with a rugged, rocky hillside and dense evergreen forest in the background under a bright sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, offering authentic archival footage of the American West. This natural landscape clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123446071

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: 1958 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: Yellowstone, 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: Fills a 1950s American West landscape slot in documentaries or educational productions needing authentic 8mm scenery from a national park setting.
Period detail: The 8mm color palette, grain structure, and film-edge vignetting are consistent with mid-to-late 1950s amateur filmstock; no modern infrastructure is visible.
Home-movie behavior: A family visitor panning unhurriedly across an open hillside vista, capturing the landscape as a personal travel record rather than a staged composition.
What appears in frame: Bare deciduous trees in foreground, dense evergreen conifers, steep rocky hillside with exposed strata, deep valley in background, overcast-bright sky, sparse mid-slope scrub.
Film character: Moderate 8mm grain, muted cool-blue color shift on shadowed slopes, slight overexposure in sky, and gentle handheld drift give the footage an unmistakably analog archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a landscape cutaway or transitional insert between interview segments in a documentary about mid-century American national park tourism or the postwar outdoors movement.
Historical context: Home-movie visits to Yellowstone rose sharply in the postwar era as car ownership and leisure travel expanded; this clip may reflect that broader cultural moment.
Research note: No people, recognizable faces, branded signage, or private structures are visible; underlying copyright rests with the original filmmaker — standard archival editorial licensing applies.
Research search match: 1950s Yellowstone landscape 8mm, vintage Wyoming national park hillside, mid-century American West nature footage, archival Rocky Mountain scenery film.
Archive pairing path: First pair with other clips from the same reel or Yellowstone location; then with 1950s Wyoming or Rocky Mountain landscape footage; then with postwar national park travel sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm frame from approximately 1958 showing bare deciduous trees and evergreens against a deep, heavily forested valley, likely Yellowstone, Wyoming. — Forested valley view through bare foreground trees, 1958.

8mm frame circa 1958 of an eroded rocky slope with sparse conifers and a tangle of bare branches, consistent with Yellowstone terrain. — Eroded rocky hillside with bare branches and sparse conifers, 1958.

8mm frame circa 1958 showing green conifer trees against a broad, pale, steeply striated hillside, likely within Yellowstone National Park. — Conifers against a broad striated hillside, 1958.

8mm frame circa 1958 showing a wide rocky hillside with a dense conifer treeline along the upper ridge under a bright, washed-out sky, consistent with Yellowstone, Wyoming. — Rocky hillside with ridge treeline under bright sky, 1958.

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