Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: View Of A High Place With Little Vegetation And

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

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View Of A High Place With Little Vegetation And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a rugged volcanic landscape in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The camera pans across a desolate, rocky terrain with sparse green vegetation and a weathered tree stump. In the distance, a classic turquoise car drives along a dirt path under a clear blue sky. The grainy, sun-drenched quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a sense of mid-century exploration and natural wonder. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling about American national parks.

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: 123480015

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: 1950s 8mm Yellowstone landscape footage suited to documentary inserts on park travel, volcanic terrain, and mid-century home-movie sightseeing.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1958 visitor view of barren rocky terrain in Yellowstone, with era context supported by the film metadata rather than visible clothing or vehicles in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing reads as a visitor-shot scan of rough terrain, lingering on the slope rather than staging a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rocky hillsides, sparse scrub vegetation, blue sky, film-frame borders, rough ground, and possible distant human figures flagged for review.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and gate-edge shadows that give the short landscape view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for Yellowstone travel, volcanic ground, or mid-century road-trip sequences.
Historical context: The footage places a visitor camera in a stark park landscape where bare rock, scrub growth, and open sky dominate the view.
Research note: Metadata flags people visible, so copyright, location context, and any likeness concerns should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1958 Yellowstone 8mm rocky landscape, vintage Wyoming home movie, barren volcanic terrain, and national park travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming clips, then broader vintage national-park landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a dark, rugged rocky slope with sparse vegetation and blue sky at the top. — A rough, sparsely vegetated hillside fills the frame beneath a narrow band of sky.

Yellowstone 8mm frame from 1958 showing a sunlit rocky rise with scattered scrub and a clear blue sky. — The camera holds on a brighter section of the barren rocky rise.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a rocky mound, open sky, and scattered low vegetation near the base. — A higher rocky mound appears against the sky, with small patches of green at the bottom edge.

Yellowstone 1958 8mm frame showing a rocky ridge, blue sky, sparse scrub, and a dark foreground shape possibly near the camera. — The final frame shows the ridge sloping down with scrub and a dark foreground form at the lower edge.

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