Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Building In The Distance With Mountains In The Background

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

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Building In The Distance With Mountains In The Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a long, low institutional building with a prominent brick chimney, set against a backdrop of dense evergreen trees and a massive mountain range in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a grassy field in the foreground and a slightly overcast sky, with the camera panning slowly to reveal the expansive landscape. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 footage evokes a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgia, capturing a quiet, desolate moment in a remote wilderness location.

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: 123479665

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Yellowstone or American West productions needing a quiet establishing cutaway of a remote institutional building and mountain landscape.
Period detail: The 1958 metadata, 8mm color stock, distant low building, open field, and roadside or window-framed viewpoint support a mid-century visitor home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a traveler noticing scenery from a fixed or passing vantage point rather than staging a formal view of the building.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale low building, brick chimney, grassy field, evergreen tree line, blue mountain mass, overcast sky, and dark window or film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, color shift, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing give the shot the texture of original 8mm travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, quiet transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat for travel, wilderness, or institutional-location sequences.
Historical context: The view suggests mid-century tourism or travel observation in Yellowstone, with built infrastructure set against a broad mountain and forest landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but the building and exact location should be researched separately for copyright, property, and identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Yellowstone home movie, Wyoming mountain building, mid-century American West travel footage, and remote institutional landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader mountain-road and park-infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone-area 8mm frame showing a distant low building, brick chimney, grassy field, trees, and mountain backdrop. — A distant institutional-looking building sits below evergreens and a mountain slope.

Distant Yellowstone building viewed through dark vertical framing, with evergreens and a blue mountain in the background. — The building remains centered beneath the tree line and mountain backdrop.

A soft 8mm view of the pale building partly cropped by the frame, with forest and mountain rising beyond. — The camera shifts across the building, leaving part of it near the frame edge.

The Yellowstone 8mm view pans away to a grassy field with fence posts, sparse trees, and distant wooded hills. — The scene opens onto field, fence posts, trees, and distant hills after the building leaves view.

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