Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Slow Pan Left To Right Of Deserted Road In Volcanic Landscape

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

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Slow Pan Left To Right Of Deserted Road In Volcanic... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan from left to right of a deserted road winding through a rugged, volcanic landscape in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The view, framed by the dark edges of a car window, reveals a stark terrain of dark lava rock, scattered shrubs, and resilient pine trees under a pale sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle motion blur, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century American road travel and exploration.

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: 123480393

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

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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 Yellowstone travel, road-trip, or public-land landscape sequences needing quiet archival 8mm footage without visible people or vehicles.
Period detail: The car-window framing, muted color 8mm stock, and roadside view may show a mid-century visitor perspective on Yellowstone's volcanic terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot viewpoint, panning slowly from inside or beside a car across roadside scrub, dark rock, and pines.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a deserted road, dark volcanic-looking rock, low shrubs, scattered pine trees, pale sky, and black film or window edges.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, faded color, gate-edge darkness, and slight handheld blur give the shot a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape cutaway, road-trip insert, transition, or memory beat in a Yellowstone or American West sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure travel through a rugged national-park landscape, with the road and car-window edge grounding it in visitor movement.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property or park-use requirements should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm Yellowstone road footage, volcanic landscape home movie, deserted park road, and American West travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Yellowstone material, then broader mid-century road travel or volcanic landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame of a quiet roadside volcanic landscape with shrubs, rocks, pines, and dark window edges. — A deserted road runs past low brush, dark rocks, and pines in the Yellowstone landscape.

Yellowstone roadside terrain appears through dark car-window or film edges, with pines, brush, rocks, and pale sky. — The pan continues across pines, brush, and dark rocky ground beyond the empty road.

Soft 8mm frame from the pan across Yellowstone scrubland, showing pines, roadside rock, shrubs, and a pale sky. — Motion blur softens the pines and scrub as the camera pans across the roadside scene.

End of the Yellowstone pan shows an empty road below dark rocky terrain, scattered shrubs, pines, and soft 8mm grain. — The shot settles on dark volcanic-looking rocks, brush, pines, and the empty roadside.

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