Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Home Video Shows Off A Waterfall In The Midst Of A

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

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Home Video Shows Off A Waterfall In The Midst Of A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Yellowstone National Park's rugged canyon landscape. The footage reveals a dramatic, layered rock formation with a rushing waterfall cascading through the valley below. A tall evergreen tree stands prominently in the foreground, partially framing the scene. The natural light highlights the earthy tones of the canyon walls and the vibrant green of the forested rim under a partly cloudy sky. The grainy texture and color palette are characteristic of mid-century home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a classic American natural wonder.

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: 123481421

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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing Yellowstone canyon scenery, waterfall cutaways, or mid-century American park travel footage for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The clip may show 1958 visitor-shot 8mm footage, with visible era clues mainly in the handheld framing, color film texture, and scenic home-movie viewpoint rather than clothing or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on a canyon overlook and waterfall as a traveler records a dramatic national park vista.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep layered canyon walls, a white rushing waterfall or river, evergreen trees, a forested rim, dark film frame borders, and partly open sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld composition that give the scenic view its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, travel transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about parks, road trips, geology, or family travel.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century recreational filming of a major American national park landscape, centered on scenery rather than identifiable people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location permissions, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Yellowstone 8mm home movie, Wyoming canyon waterfall footage, vintage national park travel film, and scenic archive cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming footage, then broader vintage national park waterfalls and canyon travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a steep layered canyon wall partly framed by an evergreen tree. — Canyon wall and foreground evergreen seen from a Yellowstone overlook.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame with evergreen branches in front of pale canyon walls and a wooded rim. — Evergreen branches frame the canyon walls and forested rim.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing white water cutting through steep, layered canyon walls. — White water runs through the canyon below the overlook.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame of white water below layered canyon cliffs, with an evergreen at the right edge. — Water rushes through the canyon beneath layered rock walls.

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