Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Water Vapor Rising From Partially Frozen Pond On A

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

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Water Vapor Rising From Partially Frozen Pond On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures steam rising from a partially frozen pond in Yellowstone National Park. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows a geothermal feature with mist curling over icy water, surrounded by snow-dusted ground and evergreen trees. The scene evokes a cold, quiet winter day in the American West, with natural steam rising against a muted sky. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century nature observation.

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: 123481101

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: Useful for 1950s documentary or educational requests needing quiet Yellowstone geothermal winter scenery from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip carries mid-century amateur-film clues through soft color, visible gate edges, and handheld framing, while the natural landscape itself offers few date-specific visual markers.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the steaming pond from a visitor's distant, stationary viewpoint, valuing the spectacle of vapor over staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale steam, partially frozen water, snow-dusted banks, dark evergreen trees, upright grass stems, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that gives the landscape a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cold-weather cutaway, Yellowstone establishing insert, geothermal transition, or reflective memory beat within a nature sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century tourist view of Yellowstone's geothermal landscape, focused on natural steam and ice rather than people or facilities.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Yellowstone geothermal steam, frozen pond vapor, winter national park home movie, and vintage Wyoming nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Yellowstone material, then other 1958 Wyoming national park footage, then broader vintage geothermal, snow, and winter nature clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing pale vapor over icy water, with dark 8mm frame borders and faint shoreline grass. — Vapor hangs low over an icy geothermal pond, seen through the 8mm frame edge.

Yellowstone geothermal pond with light steam over ice and snow-toned water, recorded in soft 1950s 8mm color. — Steam softens the view across a frozen pond surface in Yellowstone.

Soft, grainy 8mm view of vapor drifting across a partially frozen Yellowstone pond with sparse foreground grasses. — A low curtain of vapor moves across the icy water surface.

Wide Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a steaming, partly frozen pond bordered by snow patches and dark evergreens. — Snowy banks and evergreens frame a steaming geothermal pond.

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