Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Waterfall Cascading Down Rocky Canyon

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

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Waterfall Cascading Down Rocky Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a powerful waterfall cascading down a rocky canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The camera slowly pulls back, revealing the full scale of the waterfall as it plunges into a misty basin below. The rugged cliffs, dense evergreen forest, and natural light create a classic mid-century Americana scene. The footage exhibits authentic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a 1950s national park visit. Ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 123481248

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 waterfall footage for documentary inserts, park-history sequences, travel memory scenes, or nature archive cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color, soft focus, and a visitor viewpoint on a canyon waterfall, with the 1958 date and Yellowstone location supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records the waterfall from a sightseeing vantage point, emphasizing the visitor experience rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad waterfall, rocky canyon walls, mist at the basin, evergreen forest on the ridges, distant slopes, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, muted color shifts, soft exposure, slight blur, and visible frame borders that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, transition, nature cutaway, travel-memory beat, or establishing detail for mid-century national park material.
Historical context: The footage reflects a mid-century home-movie encounter with Yellowstone scenery, showing landscape tourism through a personal camera perspective.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are flagged, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or park-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yellowstone waterfall, 8mm national park footage, vintage Wyoming canyon, home movie waterfall, and mid-century park travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming footage, then broader 1950s national park, waterfall, canyon, and travel-memory scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a waterfall plunging through a rocky canyon with mist near the base. — Waterfall descends through a steep rocky canyon as mist gathers below.

Yellowstone waterfall seen in 1958 8mm footage, with pale water dropping between rugged canyon walls. — The waterfall remains centered between rough canyon walls in a soft 8mm frame.

1958 Yellowstone frame with the waterfall lower in view, revealing more canyon wall and forested terrain above. — A wider view reveals forested slopes beyond the canyon and the waterfall below.

Yellowstone waterfall in a wider 1958 home-movie view, with canyon walls, ridge trees, and mist around the plunge. — The camera pulls back to show the waterfall within the larger canyon landscape.

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