Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Lodge, Bus, and Mountains in Scenic 8mm Footage

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

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Lodge, Bus, and Mountains in Scenic 8mm Footage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The footage shows a large lodge-style building with a white tour bus parked in front, surrounded by evergreen trees and a grassy lawn. In the background, snow-capped mountains rise dramatically under a cloudy sky. The camera pans slightly, revealing a row of mid-century motel-style cabins with classic cars parked nearby, all set against the iconic mountain range. The film exhibits natural grain and color fading typical of Super 8 footage from the era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or history projects.

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: 123480686

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

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 Yellowstone-area home-movie scenery for productions needing a brief travel insert of lodging, tour transport, evergreens, and mountain views.
Period detail: The white tour bus, low lodge or motel buildings, parked cars, and color 8mm look support a late-1950s visitor-travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, moving from lodging and transport to the mountain backdrop without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lodge-style building, white bus, grassy lawn, evergreen trees, motel cabins, parked cars, road edge, and snow-capped mountains.
Film character: Soft focus, mild handheld drift, visible grain, faded color, and exposure variation give the scanned 8mm footage a credible home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway, or mid-century vacation memory beat.
Historical context: The views place roadside lodging and motor travel within a national-park landscape, reflecting recreational tourism without identifying a specific facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-use questions still require normal review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone lodging, Wyoming mountain vacation home movie, mid-century tour bus, and national park motel cabins.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel scenes, then broader 1950s national-park lodging and mountain footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone-area 8mm frame showing a lodge-style building, white tour bus, grassy lawn, evergreens, and distant mountains. — Lodge building and white bus set against evergreen trees and mountains.

1958 Yellowstone-area view of a white bus near a lodge or motel building, framed by trees and a mountain backdrop. — White bus near park lodging with mountains beyond the trees.

1958 Yellowstone-area 8mm frame showing roadside cabins or motel units, parked cars, evergreens, and snow-capped mountains. — Motel-style buildings and parked cars below a snow-capped mountain range.

1958 Yellowstone-area home-movie frame of low lodging buildings, parked cars, trees, road, and a snow-capped mountain range. — Low lodging buildings and parked cars beneath distant snow-covered peaks.

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