Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Rugged Hills And Natural Scenery In Vintage 8mm Footage

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

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Rugged Hills And Natural Scenery In Vintage 8mm Footage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Yellowstone National Park's rugged terrain. The clip features rolling hills under a bright blue sky, with sparse vegetation dotting the dark, rocky slopes. The footage, likely filmed from a moving vehicle, shows a natural, unscripted landscape with a distinct retro aesthetic. The grainy texture and color saturation typical of Super 8 film add to its nostalgic charm, offering authentic archival footage of the American West.

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: 123479978

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 archive requests needing brief visitor-shot landscape coverage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century tourist home-movie view of open park hills, with no visible vehicles, signage, buildings, or clothing details to date the scene beyond the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of an unstaged visitor perspective, likely filmed from a moving vehicle while passing rugged hills and sparse roadside vegetation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rolling hills, blue sky, scrubby vegetation, a roadside foreground, distant tree silhouettes, and a leafy tree at the frame edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated blue sky, visible grain, gate edges, exposure variation, and handheld or vehicle-motion framing typical of home-movie landscape footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for Yellowstone, western road trips, and mid-century park visitation.
Historical context: The footage places the viewer in a 1950s tourist gaze on Yellowstone terrain, emphasizing open landscape rather than facilities, crowds, or identified landmarks.
Research note: No logos or private property are visible in these stills, but the clip metadata flags people visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Yellowstone 8mm footage, vintage Wyoming hills, 1950s national park home movie, and American West landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming footage, then broader 1950s national park and western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a rugged dark hillside, blue sky, and sparse roadside vegetation. — A rugged hillside rises beyond low vegetation under a clear blue sky.

1958 Yellowstone view of a rolling rocky hill with scattered shrubs and a bright blue sky above. — Sparse shrubs and open hillside fill the view as the camera passes the landscape.

1958 Yellowstone landscape frame with distant hills, a darker valley floor, and a leafy tree along the right edge. — The view opens toward layered hills with roadside vegetation in the foreground.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing layered hills, open sky, and a leafy tree near the right side of the frame. — A tree frames the roadside view toward layered hills and open sky.

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