Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Mountain Peaks And Valleys On A Brilliantly Clear

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

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Mountain Peaks And Valleys On A Brilliantly Clear — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape in Yellowstone, Wyoming. The footage features towering rocky peaks, dense evergreen forests, and a clear blue sky, with a winding road visible in one frame. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a classic Super 8 aesthetic, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American wilderness. The camera pans across the scenic terrain, highlighting the raw beauty of the natural environment.

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: 123481319

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 suited for documentary inserts about mid-century park travel, mountain scenery, road trips, or American wilderness memory.
Period detail: The footage may show a visitor-filmed 1958 mountain overlook with evergreen forest, rocky peaks, and a paved road, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or modern structures in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational pace of a traveler pausing along a mountain road to record scenery, using handheld framing rather than staged or professional nature photography.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen trees, pale rocky cliffs, a winding paved road, valley slopes, bare branches, blue sky, soft cloud, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, handheld drift, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and visible gate edges that give the mountain views physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic cutaway, travel transition, wilderness memory beat, or establishing insert before or after family vacation footage from the same reel.
Historical context: The clip reflects mid-century tourist attention to Western mountain scenery, presenting Yellowstone as viewed from roadside overlooks rather than through formal park interpretation.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible in these frames, but users should still assess copyright, location context, and any property or permitting concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 8mm Yellowstone mountains, vintage Wyoming road scenery, home movie rocky peaks, evergreen forest valley, and mid-century national park travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming material, then with broader vintage national park, mountain road, and wilderness travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone-area 8mm frame showing a paved mountain road, evergreens, and a rocky valley slope from a handheld roadside view. — A paved road bends through evergreen trees below a rocky mountainside.

Handheld 8mm frame from the Yellowstone clip with a blurred paved road and dark roadside forest, likely during camera movement. — The camera passes across a paved road bordered by trees, with motion blur and dark gate edges.

1958 Yellowstone-area mountain view with a pale rock peak, evergreen forest, bare branches, blue sky, and soft cloud on 8mm film. — A rocky peak rises above evergreens, with a bare tree silhouetted near the foreground.

Handheld 8mm Yellowstone-area frame showing rugged gray cliffs behind evergreen and bare trees under a pale sky. — Rugged cliffs fill the frame behind foreground trees and a pale sky.

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