Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: River Winding Through Pine-Covered Canyon

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

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River Winding Through Pine-Covered Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a winding river carving through a deep canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The rugged, layered rock walls rise steeply on either side, dotted with evergreen pine trees clinging to the slopes. The river flows with white-capped rapids, its turquoise waters contrasting against the earthy tones of the canyon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering a nostalgic glimpse of America's natural wonders from a mid-century perspective.

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: 123481404

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 canyon footage suited for documentary inserts about national park travel, western landscapes, geology, rivers, or mid-century vacation records.
Period detail: The view may show a 1958 visitor-shot perspective on Yellowstone canyon scenery, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or built features to date the scene beyond the film metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of an unstaged park overlook view, with a handheld home-movie camera lingering on the river and steep canyon walls rather than a composed commercial landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding river, pale layered canyon walls, white water, evergreen trees, steep slopes, shadowed foreground edges, and soft 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, muted color, slight softness, exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as physical-film texture from a mid-century home movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, travel transition, geography cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Yellowstone or western road-trip sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents how a private traveler visually recorded Yellowstone canyon scenery in the 1950s, emphasizing landscape scale without visible tourist infrastructure or people.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, location context, and any project-specific park or archival licensing needs.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone canyon river, vintage Wyoming national park footage, home movie rapids through canyon, and mid-century western landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming park footage, then broader vintage national park, canyon, river, and western travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a river curving through a deep pale canyon with evergreens along the rim and foreground edge. — River bends through a steep Yellowstone canyon, framed by dark foreground trees.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame of a narrow river channel below layered canyon walls, with dark evergreen branches along the right edge. — Elevated view of the river channel and layered canyon slopes.

1958 Yellowstone frame with softened exposure showing steep canyon walls, scattered pines, and a river bend partly hidden by framing and distance. — Pale canyon walls and trees surround a partially visible river bend.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing the river below a steep canyon, with pale rock faces and dense evergreen branches at the right edge. — River rapids cut through the canyon below foreground evergreens.

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