Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: The Amazing Steam Mountain

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

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The Amazing Steam Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic geothermal landscape in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Thick plumes of steam rise from a rocky, mineral-streaked hillside under a partly cloudy sky, with a dense forest line visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering authentic archival footage of the park's geothermal activity. This nostalgic clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nature-themed projects.

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: 123481808

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 for documentary inserts, education sequences, or archive programs needing visitor-shot views of steam vents and mineral ground.
Period detail: The 1958 home-movie source and faded 8mm color may show a mid-century park visitor view, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or dated infrastructure in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, holding on the spectacle of steam rising over a barren hillside from a public landscape viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steam plume, mineral-streaked slope, rocky ground, dark forest line, partly cloudy sky, soft focus, film gate edges, and frame jitter.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, faded color, uneven exposure, soft focus, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a geothermal cutaway, nature transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for Yellowstone and historic park visitation.
Historical context: The frames document geothermal activity as seen by a mid-century park visitor, emphasizing landscape observation rather than recreation, tourism facilities, or human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright, park-location permissions, and any project-specific editorial or commercial requirements.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm steam vents, vintage home movie geothermal landscape, Wyoming National Park archive footage, and mineral hillside steam plume.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone views, then broader vintage geothermal, national park, Wyoming, and home-movie nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing steam drifting behind a barren mineral-streaked slope and dark forest edge. — Steam rises over a mineral hillside below a forested ridge.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame with a gray mineral slope, rising steam, forest silhouette, and partly cloudy sky. — A wide view of steam moving across a barren geothermal slope.

Yellowstone 1958 8mm still showing thick white steam over mineral-streaked ground with dense forest in the background. — Thick geothermal steam crosses the top of a rocky hillside.

Final 1958 Yellowstone frame with steam spreading near the forest edge over a mineral-streaked geothermal hillside. — Steam trails along the forest edge above the mineral ground.

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