Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A View Of Dry Rocky Desert In Summertime

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

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A View Of Dry Rocky Desert In Summertime — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dry, rocky geothermal landscape in Yellowstone National Park. The footage shows bubbling mud pots and steaming geysers with a textured, mineral-rich surface under a bright summer sky. Dark green trees and yellow-leafed shrubs frame the scene, with steam rising from the earth. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and natural camera movement evoke a sense of quiet exploration and mid-century Americana. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic projects.

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: 123481071

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 8mm Yellowstone geothermal landscape footage for documentary inserts, museum programs, education sequences, or mid-century travel context.
Period detail: The clip may show 1958 visitor-shot color 8mm views of Yellowstone mineral terrain, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, or built features to date the scene beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged tourist viewpoint, holding on steam, pale mineral crust, and wet ground as a home-movie record of seeing geothermal features in person.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale rocky mineral flats, shallow milky pools, small bubbling mud areas, drifting steam, dark conifer trees, yellow-green shrubs, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fade, gate edges, and gentle handheld movement that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel-memory insert, nature transition, or establishing detail for Yellowstone, geothermal activity, or mid-century road-trip material.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for leisure travel to national-park geothermal areas in the 1950s without showing visitors, infrastructure, or interpretive signage.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and any broader project clearance should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm geothermal landscape, vintage home movie mud pots, 1950s Wyoming national park footage, and steaming mineral flats.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming clips, then with broader geothermal, national park, or vintage travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing pale geothermal mineral flats, a shallow pool, small dark rocks, and vegetation in the background. — Pale mineral terrain and shallow geothermal water bordered by trees and shrubs.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm view of a pale rocky geothermal surface, shallow mineral water, small stones, and dark vegetation beyond. — A shallow mineral pool cuts through pale rocky geothermal ground.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame with pale mineral crust, a shallow wet channel, small rocks, and dark vegetation in the distance. — Handheld home-movie view across mineral crust and shallow geothermal water.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing steam rising behind a pale geothermal mound, with trees, shrubs, and shallow mineral water visible. — Steam rises behind pale geothermal ground with trees and shrubs beyond.

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