Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A Moose Is Eating Grass By The Side Of The Road In

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

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A Moose Is Eating Grass By The Side Of The Road In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a moose grazing in a lush green meadow beside a paved road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The animal, with its dark, shaggy coat, moves slowly as it feeds, framed by dense evergreen trees and a backdrop of distant mountains under a cloudy sky. The footage, viewed through a car window, shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, conveying the authentic feel of a mid-century road trip. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, perfect for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123481026

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: Useful for 1950s Yellowstone wildlife and roadside travel requests needing brief 8mm home-movie coverage of a moose grazing near a road.
Period detail: The 1958 date is supported by metadata, while the visible paved roadside viewpoint and soft 8mm color may show mid-century park touring conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective from inside or beside a vehicle, watching wildlife pause close to the roadway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grazing moose, green meadow grass, evergreen trunks, a paved road edge, dark vehicle-window framing, and sunlit forest.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, road-trip insert, Yellowstone transition, or quiet memory beat within a travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene places park wildlife close to visitor travel routes, showing a casual roadside encounter rather than a managed or narrated wildlife presentation.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, park-use context, and wildlife identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone moose, vintage Wyoming wildlife, roadside grazing animal, and mid-century national park home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage national park wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a moose grazing in dark meadow shade near a roadside forest edge. — A moose feeds in the grass near a road, partly obscured by dark car-window framing.

1958 Yellowstone roadside view of a moose lowering its head to graze in a sunlit meadow near conifers. — The moose stands in brighter grass beside the road with forest trunks in the background.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame with a moose grazing near the paved road while the camera looks through vehicle-window edges. — A roadside moose remains in the meadow, framed by dark edges from the viewing position.

Closer 1958 Yellowstone frame of a moose feeding in lush grass beside roadside trees, with soft 8mm focus. — The final frame brings the grazing moose closer within the forested roadside meadow.

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