Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Waterfall Cascading Through Canyon

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

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Waterfall Cascading Through Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a powerful waterfall cascading through a rugged canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The footage shows the waterfall from multiple angles, with water plunging into a misty pool below, surrounded by steep, rocky cliffs and sparse vegetation. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century amateur film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of America's natural wonders. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 123481220

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 8mm Yellowstone home-movie footage for documentary inserts needing a rugged canyon waterfall without people or modern signage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century tourist-shot color film through its 8mm texture, soft focus, and handheld framing rather than visible clothing or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The footage reflects a visitor's shifting vantage points on the falls, lingering on the plunge, mist, canyon walls, and river below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall waterfall, misty spray, steep rocky canyon walls, evergreen slopes, river water, sparse vegetation, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The scanned 8mm has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge shadows that give it a clear home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief nature cutaway, travel-memory insert, Yellowstone establishing detail, or transition between outdoor archive scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a national-park waterfall within a 1958 home-movie travel context, emphasizing landscape observation rather than staged activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone waterfall, vintage Wyoming canyon falls, home movie national park footage, and mid-century nature travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Yellowstone travel footage, then other 1958 Wyoming park scenes, then broader vintage waterfall or canyon nature clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Yellowstone footage showing a waterfall descending through a rugged canyon with evergreen slopes and film-frame edges. — A waterfall drops into a steep rocky canyon, framed by dark trees and exposed canyon walls.

Yellowstone 8mm frame from 1958 showing waterfall spray, a river channel, and rugged canyon walls below the falls. — Spray fills the canyon as the waterfall feeds a river below steep rock faces.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame with a closer view of the falls plunging into heavy mist beside canyon walls. — The falls fill the frame, with white spray rising from the plunge pool area below.

1958 8mm Yellowstone frame showing a tall waterfall descending into a mist-filled canyon bordered by rugged rock slopes. — A tall sheet of water drops into the canyon, partly obscured by drifting spray.

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