Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Panning Steaming Geothermal Terraces With Hills In Background

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

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Panning Steaming Geothermal Terraces With Hills In... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a steaming geothermal landscape in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The camera pans across terraced mineral formations bubbling with hot water, emitting plumes of steam against a backdrop of dark hills and a dramatic blue sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes mid-century Americana, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about natural wonders.

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: 123481647

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 geothermal footage suited to documentary inserts, museum timelines, education sequences, or period travel context.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century visitor-shot color 8mm footage, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or buildings to further date the scene beyond the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The panning view gives an unstaged visitor perspective on steaming terraces and nearby hills, consistent with a home-movie record of a park stop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include mineral terraces, shallow runoff channels, steam plumes, dark hills, blue sky, distant cloud, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has grain, soft focus, blue-shifted color, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a natural-wonder cutaway, travel-memory beat, geothermal establishing insert, or transition within a Yellowstone sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a tourist-era view of Yellowstone geothermal terrain without visible crowds or infrastructure, focusing attention on the landscape itself.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-based use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm geothermal terraces, vintage Wyoming hot springs steam, and mid-century national park home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone material, then broader 1950s national park or geothermal landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing steaming geothermal terraces with dark hills in the background. — Steam rises from terraced mineral ground beneath a dark hillside.

Yellowstone geothermal landscape with pale mineral terraces, drifting steam, and dark hills in a 1958 8mm frame. — The pan continues across pale terraces and low steam against the hills.

Visitor-shot 1958 Yellowstone view of a steaming mineral terrace edge with hills and clouded sky beyond. — A brighter terrace edge fills the foreground as steam drifts across the scene.

1958 8mm Yellowstone frame showing a pale geothermal mound, rising steam, and dark hills beyond. — Steam softens the view of a pale geothermal mound and distant hillside.

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