Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Slow Moving View Of A Coast With Lots Of Water And Mountains

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

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Slow Moving View Of A Coast With Lots Of Water And Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a slow-moving view from a boat on a calm lake in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The footage shows a vast expanse of blue water with rugged, arid hills and distant mountains under a hazy sky. A small object, possibly a bird or aerial, appears briefly in the air. The frame is bordered by dark edges, suggesting a window or viewfinder, with a metal railing visible in one shot. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Slow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123479875

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 U.S. travel, boating, and national-park landscape requests needing brief home-movie lake scenery from Yellowstone, Wyoming.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, dark frame edges, and simple boat-rail viewpoint are consistent with late-1950s amateur travel footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing water, shoreline, and mountains from a moving boat rather than staging a scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, hazy distant hills, rocky shoreline, dark film-frame borders, pale sky, and a metal boat railing in the final view.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and gentle handheld or boat movement that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel insert, location transition, lake cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Yellowstone vacation scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century leisure travel recorded from the water, with landscape and boat details foregrounded over people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location-use requirements for the production.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Yellowstone lake footage, vintage Wyoming boating view, midcentury home movie water and mountains, and national park travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage lake and mountain boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Yellowstone travel footage showing calm water and hazy mountain shoreline from a boat-framed viewpoint. — Distant hills and lake water appear beyond dark vertical frame edges.

A boat-level view across Yellowstone lake water toward low landforms and distant mountains in faded 8mm color. — Low shoreline forms sit across the water under a hazy mountain backdrop.

Vintage Yellowstone lake view from a moving boat, with broad water and muted hills framed by dark 8mm edges. — A broad stretch of water leads toward muted hills on the far shore.

1958 Yellowstone boat view with metal railing, deep blue lake water, and rocky shore rising in the distance. — A metal boat railing frames the lake and rocky shoreline beyond.

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