Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Layered Rocky Formations In Distance With Valleys

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

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Layered Rocky Formations In Distance With Valleys — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping panoramic view of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The camera slowly pans across a vast, rugged landscape featuring layered rocky formations and deep valleys under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The natural scenery is rich with green grassy areas contrasting against the earthy tones of the geological formations. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123446147

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: Serves 1950s American West and national park documentary segments, natural history productions, or mid-century road trip narratives requiring authentic 8mm panoramic landscape footage.
Period detail: The warm Kodachrome-style color palette, film grain, and 8mm aspect ratio are consistent with late-1950s amateur travel filmmaking; no dateable human-made elements are visible in any frame.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an elevated vantage point, the slowly panning camera conveys a visitor's awe at the scale of the landscape — a characteristic tourist-viewpoint record of a national park panorama.
What appears in frame: Wide eroded valley floor, horizontally banded sedimentary rock formations, scattered buttes, green grassy patches in lower terrain, deep gully shadows, cumulus clouds, and expansive blue sky.
Film character: Warm Kodachrome-era color saturation with visible 8mm grain and slight halation in bright sky areas lend the footage an authentic mid-century texture that cannot be replicated digitally.
Edit role: Works as an establishing wide shot or transitional cutaway conveying scale and era in any American West, geological survey, or national parks documentary sequence.
Historical context: The postwar car boom of the 1950s drove a surge in family road trips to national parks; footage of this type documents ordinary visitors' engagement with public lands during that era.
Research note: No identifiable people, structures, or branded elements are visible; copyright rests with the original filmmaker's estate — provenance and chain-of-title should be confirmed before broadcast use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1950s Yellowstone footage, Wyoming landscape 8mm film, mid-century national park panorama, or vintage American West geological formations.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Yellowstone/Wyoming set; then with 1950s national park footage; then with geological formations or badlands landscape clips of the same era.

Still Frames From This Clip

Wide 8mm panorama of layered rock formations and grassy valleys, attributed to Yellowstone, Wyoming, circa 1958. — Wide panorama of eroded geological formations and valleys, 1958.

Mid-pan 8mm frame of rocky eroded formations and green valleys, Yellowstone/Wyoming region, circa 1958. — Panning view across layered geological formations, 1958.

8mm film frame of rugged eroded terrain and valleys under cumulus clouds, Yellowstone/Wyoming region, circa 1958. — Rugged eroded terrain under partly cloudy sky, 1958.

8mm frame showing a prominent butte amid eroded landscape and grassy valley, Yellowstone/Wyoming region, circa 1958. — Prominent butte amid eroded valley formations, 1958.

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