Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Powerful Waterfall Cascading Down Rocky Cliff

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

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Powerful Waterfall Cascading Down Rocky Cliff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a powerful waterfall cascading down a rugged cliff face in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The camera pans slightly, revealing the rushing water, mist, and surrounding pine forest. The image shows classic Super 8 film grain and color fading, with a dark border framing the scene. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of natural beauty 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: 123481198

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 travel footage for documentary inserts about national parks, American road trips, waterfalls, and mid-century visitor views of western landscapes.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie framing, color shift, dark film borders, and handheld view may show a 1958 visitor recording a Yellowstone waterfall from an overlook or trail area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, holding on the falls and canyon wall as a brief travel memory rather than a formal scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall white waterfall, rocky canyon walls, dark pine trees, mist at the base, a rushing stream, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, color fading, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement that read as physical mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for Yellowstone and western national park sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational filming of a dramatic natural feature in Yellowstone without visible people, vehicles, signage, or developed visitor infrastructure in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright, location permissions, and any separate property or agency requirements.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm waterfall, vintage Wyoming national park footage, home movie canyon waterfall, and mid-century American travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming clips, then with vintage national park waterfalls and western travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Yellowstone footage showing a white waterfall descending between rocky canyon walls and dark conifers. — A waterfall pours into a canyon basin, framed by rock faces and dark trees.

Vintage Yellowstone frame with the waterfall centered against brown canyon rock and a dark tree line. — The falls drop from a cliff edge into mist at the base of the gorge.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing the falls, canyon rock, conifers, and a diagonal branch in the foreground. — A diagonal branch crosses the view as the waterfall drops into the canyon.

End frame of the 1958 Yellowstone 8mm clip, with the waterfall descending below canyon rock and trees. — The final view holds on the waterfall and rugged canyon surroundings.

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