Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A Turquoise Geothermal Spring Amid Mineral Terraces

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

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A Turquoise Geothermal Spring Amid Mineral Terraces — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene natural spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The turquoise water pools in a rocky basin, surrounded by mineral-encrusted terraces and rugged stone formations. The footage, with its characteristic grain and soft focus, offers a nostalgic glimpse of the park's geothermal features, showcasing the unique beauty of the American West during the late 1950s. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing the intricate textures of the mineral deposits and the calm surface of the water. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic projects exploring mid-century American travel and nature.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123481575

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 archive requests needing visitor-shot Yellowstone geothermal scenery for documentary, museum, education, or period travel sequences.
Period detail: The footage shows a mid-century 8mm home-movie view of mineral terraces and turquoise spring water, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, or dated objects in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the spring and terraces from a visitor vantage point, valuing the slow look at color, texture, and landscape rather than a staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise geothermal water, pale mineral crust, rocky ledges, terrace channels, sparse vegetation, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Yellowstone insert, nature cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader American West or national park scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually supports mid-century leisure travel and park sightseeing context without identifying a specific spring or landmark beyond the supplied Yellowstone metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location-use needs separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Yellowstone geothermal spring, vintage Wyoming national park footage, mineral terraces, turquoise hot spring, and home movie travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel clips, then broader 1950s national park and geothermal landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing turquoise geothermal water bordered by pale mineral terraces and rocky ledges. — Turquoise spring water sits below pale mineral-encrusted rock.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a turquoise pool, pale terrace rock, and dark vegetation near the basin edge. — The spring curves along a pale mineral terrace with dark vegetation above it.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing pale mineral channels running through a rocky terrace landscape near geothermal water. — Mineral channels trace across the terrace near the spring basin.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing mineral runnels, rocky slopes, and soft-edged terrace formations in the geothermal area. — Pale runnels cut through the terrace below darker slopes.

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