Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: View Of Mountains And Calm Water On A Cloudy Day

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

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View Of Mountains And Calm Water On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape view from Yellowstone, Wyoming. The clip shows a calm body of water in the foreground with a dark, forested shoreline leading to a range of rolling mountains under a cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, with a slow pan across the natural scenery. The muted blue and gray tones evoke a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American nature footage.

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: 123479355

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: 1950s Yellowstone 8mm landscape footage for documentary inserts, regional travel context, museum interpretation, or quiet nature transitions.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color home-movie material, with no visible clothing, vehicles, signage, or built features to date the scene beyond the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on distant mountains and still water as a personal travel record rather than a staged scenic production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a dark forested shoreline, layered mountain ridges, patches of snow, heavy clouds, soft horizon lines, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted blue-gray color, visible grain, slight vignetting, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, reflective transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a Yellowstone or American West sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a natural park landscape as seen through a 1950s amateur camera, emphasizing scenery and weather rather than visitor activity or infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source permissions, and location-specific use requirements.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm mountains, vintage Wyoming lake view, cloudy American West landscape, and home movie park scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming footage, then broader 1950s mountain, lake, and national park scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing calm water, a dark shoreline, and distant mountain ridges beneath clouds. — Clouds hang over distant mountains across a calm body of water.

1958 Yellowstone landscape frame with blue-gray mountain ridges, still water, and overcast sky in a soft 8mm scan. — A still lake or broad waterway sits below layered mountain ridges.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a low mountain silhouette, dark forested shore, calm water, and soft clouds. — The landscape widens to a low mountain profile under a pale clouded sky.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame with a distant ridge, snow patch, dark tree line, calm water, and overcast sky. — A snow-flecked ridge appears beyond the dark shoreline and quiet water.

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