Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Mountain Water Scenery Sky Island

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

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Mountain Water Scenery Sky Island — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene journey across a vast lake in Yellowstone, Wyoming. Viewed through a window frame, the footage reveals a calm water surface with distant islands and rolling mountain ranges under a soft, overcast sky. The grainy texture and muted color palette evoke a nostalgic, timeless feel. A bird briefly flies across the frame, adding subtle motion to the tranquil landscape. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted nature footage ideal 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: 123479916

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 8mm Yellowstone lake scenery for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, nature cutaways, or reflective archive passages.
Period detail: The 1958 date is supported by metadata, while the frames mainly show mid-century amateur color film with a window-framed view across water and mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot perspective from behind a window or boat structure, watching islands and shoreline pass without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake surface, distant islands, layered mountain ridges, pale overcast sky, dark vertical window frames, and soft shoreline forms.
Film character: Muted color, visible grain, slight softness, and handheld framing give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture appropriate to the source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, scenic cutaway, or memory beat between more specific Yellowstone material.
Historical context: The footage documents how a 1950s home-movie traveler visually recorded open western water and mountain scenery from a moving or framed vantage point.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any access or park-use issues should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone lake, vintage Wyoming mountain water, home movie island scenery, and midcentury western travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage lake, mountain, and national park scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone-area lake view with distant island shapes, layered mountains, pale sky, and dark window framing. — A framed view across calm water toward low islands and hazy mountain ridges.

A 1958 Yellowstone lake scene shows island silhouettes and distant ridges through a dark window or boat frame. — Island forms and mountain layers sit beyond the water, split by the vertical frame.

Yellowstone home-movie footage from 1958 frames a broad lake, small islands, and rolling mountain shoreline. — The view opens slightly to show islands, shoreline, and layered hills across the water.

A 1958 Yellowstone water view shows low islands, a sloping mountain shoreline, and subdued sky through a dark divider. — Low islands and a sloped shoreline recede across the lake under muted light.

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