Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A Rock Cliff Rises To A Mountain Peak From A Slope

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

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A Rock Cliff Rises To A Mountain Peak From A Slope — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain slope in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The camera tilts downward, revealing a steep, rocky cliff face dotted with conifer trees. Sunlight illuminates the textured rock and sparse vegetation, creating a classic mid-century natural landscape. The footage shows the characteristic grain and color palette of 8mm film, evoking a sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage nature 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: 123481293

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 landscape footage for documentary inserts needing a visitor-shot view of rugged cliffs, conifers, and mountain slope terrain.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century amateur travel filming through its 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and scenic national-park viewpoint rather than built era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a visitor pausing on scenery, drifting across the cliff and trees without staging, narration, people, or formal survey coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale rock faces, steep wooded slopes, conifer trees, exposed ground, sunlit patches, shadowed forest, and brief soft focus.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft registration, variable exposure, and handheld movement that read as physical-film texture from a family travel reel.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief nature cutaway, location transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for Yellowstone terrain.
Historical context: The scene reflects postwar home-movie travel attention to western park landscapes, while the frames themselves show only natural terrain and forested slope.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright, source ownership, and location context for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone landscape, Wyoming cliff and conifers, vintage home movie mountain slope, and national park terrain footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel shots, then broader vintage national-park landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a pale rock cliff partly screened by dark conifers on a steep wooded slope. — Rock cliff and conifers fill the opening view of the mountain slope.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame looking across a rocky slope with scattered conifers, sunlit ground, and darker tree cover. — The view shifts across rocky ground and clustered trees on the slope.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame with conifer branches in front of a rough, sunlit mountainside and exposed rocky ground. — Trees partially obscure the rocky mountainside in the middle of the clip.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame ending on a softer downward view of forested slope, tree shadows, exposed soil, and scattered rocks. — The camera settles lower on the shadowed slope and forest floor.

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