Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Treeless Mountain With Erosion Patterns

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

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Treeless Mountain With Erosion Patterns — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a rugged, treeless mountain landscape in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The camera pans across a barren, rocky slope marked by deep erosion patterns and uneven terrain. The earthy tones of brown and gray dominate the scene, with visible film grain and slight motion blur characteristic of home movie footage. The natural, unspoiled environment highlights the raw beauty of the American West during the late 1950s.

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: 123480202

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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing Yellowstone-area barren mountain terrain, volcanic-looking slopes, or Western landscape cutaways for documentary and editorial sequences.
Period detail: The footage carries 1958 home-movie-era cues through 8mm color grain, handheld framing, soft focus, and a visitor view of undeveloped rocky terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the treeless slope from a casual visitor perspective, panning across erosion lines and dark rock outcrops without staging or human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep brown-gray slopes, dark rocky outcrops, erosion channels, loose gravel, a ridge line, pale sky, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip shows 8mm texture with visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and gate-edge shadowing that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a landscape insert, travel transition, geological cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Yellowstone or American West sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a mid-century tourist record of open, treeless terrain in Yellowstone, emphasizing landscape observation rather than recreation or built infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location-specific permissions for their intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Yellowstone mountain slope, vintage home movie rocky erosion landscape, and 1950s American West barren terrain footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone material, then broader 1950s Western landscape or geology-themed footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Yellowstone footage showing a barren brown-gray slope with a dark rocky outcrop and visible erosion channels. — A steep, treeless slope with dark rock and erosion marks fills the frame.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame with a dark rock formation on a bare mountain slope and pale sky above the ridge. — A rugged rock formation sits on a barren slope beneath a pale sky.

1958 8mm Yellowstone view of a dark, irregular rock outcrop surrounded by dry brown and gray sloping ground. — The camera lingers near a dark outcrop set into the dry hillside.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing sloped, treeless ground with scattered stones and part of a dark rocky formation near the top edge. — Scattered stones and muted earth tones mark the treeless slope.

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