Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A Big Mountain With A Lot Of Trees And A Gorgeous View

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

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A Big Mountain With A Lot Of Trees And A Gorgeous View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping mountain vista in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The footage reveals a rugged, forested landscape with evergreen trees in the foreground and a vast, rocky mountain range stretching into the distance. The color palette features deep greens, earthy browns, and a distinctive purple-blue tint in the sky, characteristic of aged film stock. The camera pans slowly across the scene, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the American wilderness. The image quality shows natural grain, slight blurring, and film edge vignetting, enhancing its authentic retro feel. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling about mid-century American nature.

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: 123446107

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: A 1958 8mm home-movie pan across a Yellowstone mountain vista, suited to mid-century American West documentaries, national park history segments, and nostalgic wilderness montages.
Period detail: Color palette, grain, and edge vignetting are consistent with late-1950s 8mm color stock; no dateable artifacts visible beyond the film character itself.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor-shot scenic overlook pan; the unhurried camera movement suggests a tourist pausing to record what they found breathtaking.
What appears in frame: Dark film-edge vignetting, foreground conifer branches, lichen-covered rocky outcroppings, possible snow patches on boulders, a sweeping mountain ridge, densely forested valley floor, and purple-blue aged-emulsion tones on mountain faces.
Film character: Moderate grain, pronounced edge vignetting, and a distinctive purple-blue color shift in the mountain tones typical of aged 8mm color film stock.
Edit role: Works as a slow-reveal cutaway or atmospheric transition in a mid-century American West or national park sequence, lending period texture to a wider documentary edit.
Historical context: Captures a Yellowstone-area landscape as a mid-century American family would have filmed it, reflecting the postwar boom in road-trip tourism to national parks.
Research note: No identifiable people, private property, or brand marks are visible; confirm specific park location against reel context before asserting Yellowstone attribution in publication.
Research search match: 1950s 8mm mountain landscape pan, Yellowstone vintage home movie, Rocky Mountain vista archival color film, American West wilderness 1958.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or vacation trip; then 1950s Rocky Mountain or Yellowstone footage; then mid-century American national park home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close foreground view of lichen-covered boulders and evergreen conifers, likely Yellowstone, Wyoming, opening frame of a 1958 8mm home movie pan. — Rocky foreground with conifers, pan opening frame.

8mm home movie frame of lichen-patched rocks and evergreen trees, Yellowstone-area Wyoming, circa 1958, pan progressing across the scene. — Rocky foreground pan mid-point, conifers overhead.

Sweeping 8mm view of a rocky mountain range with purple-blue aged-emulsion cast and evergreen-forested valley below, Yellowstone area, Wyoming, 1958. — Mountain ridge and forested valley revealed as the pan opens wide.

Closing pan frame showing full mountain vista with aged emulsion purple-blue tones and forested valley floor, Yellowstone area, Wyoming, 1958 8mm home movie. — Mountain vista at pan end, aged emulsion hues prominent.

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