Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Moose Grazes In Forest Then Geothermal Area

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

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Moose Grazes In Forest Then Geothermal Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a moose grazing in a lush green meadow within Yellowstone National Park. The animal, with its dark, shaggy coat, bends to eat grass near a tree trunk, framed by dense forest. The footage, viewed through a car window, shows natural movement and subtle camera shake, with a grainy texture and warm color palette typical of Super 8 film. The final frame shifts to a rocky, mineral-streaked landscape, suggesting a geothermal area. This archival clip offers authentic wildlife and landscape footage from mid-century America.

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: 123481052

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: 1950s Yellowstone home-movie footage for productions needing visitor-shot wildlife and geothermal landscape inserts.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and handheld framing support a mid-century travel-film context, with no visible cars, signs, or clothing for finer dating.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged park-visitor viewpoint, watching a grazing moose from a partly obstructed position before cutting to terrain nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark moose, green meadow grass, tree trunks, dense forest, pale mineral ground, low vegetation, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement typical of original 8mm travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a Yellowstone wildlife cutaway, a nature-memory beat, or a transition from forest habitat to geothermal terrain.
Historical context: The images show mid-century recreational filming of Yellowstone wildlife and landscape, without visible visitor crowds or built park infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife, park-location, copyright, and source-license review should remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Yellowstone 8mm moose, vintage Wyoming wildlife footage, home movie geothermal area, and mid-century park travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Yellowstone material, then with broader vintage wildlife or national park travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a dark moose grazing in green meadow grass beside tree trunks and forest cover. — A moose lowers its head to graze in a green meadow near forest trees.

The moose remains in profile while grazing beside a tree trunk.

Yellowstone 1958 8mm frame showing pale mineral or sandy ground with low vegetation and dark wooded background. — The view shifts from forest wildlife to pale mineral-streaked ground.

1958 Yellowstone frame showing a pale rocky geothermal-looking area bordered by low brush and darker vegetation. — Rocky pale terrain suggests a geothermal or mineral area within the park landscape.

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