Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Steam Rises Over a Vibrant Blue Hot Spring

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

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Steam Rises Over a Vibrant Blue Hot Spring — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures the iconic geothermal features of Yellowstone National Park. The clip shows a large, steaming hot spring with vibrant blue water surrounded by mineral-streaked banks. Plumes of steam rise into the air against a backdrop of dense forest and overcast skies. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, offering an authentic glimpse of mid-century travel and natural wonder. This archival film is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, and history educators.

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: 123481929

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm Yellowstone travel footage for productions needing a concise geothermal hot spring insert or mid-century national park cutaway.
Period detail: The clip shows a visitor-shot view of a steaming blue hot spring and distant boardwalk figures, with the 1958 date supported by metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The framing reflects a home-movie traveler pausing at the spring from a public viewing area, holding on steam, water color, mineral banks, and tiny visitors.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue hot spring water, white mineral deposits, rising steam, forest edge, overcast sky, distant boardwalk, and small visitor figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color shifts, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as physical mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a natural wonder insert, travel-memory beat, Yellowstone transition, or atmospheric cutaway between broader park scenes.
Historical context: The footage places mid-century leisure travel in a geothermal national park setting, emphasizing observation of landscape features from a visitor viewpoint.
Research note: People appear only as distant figures, with no readable logos or private property visible; copyright, likeness, and location-use questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm hot spring, vintage Wyoming geothermal pool, mid-century national park home movie, and steam over blue spring footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming scenes, then broader 1950s national park travel and geothermal landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a blue hot spring, drifting steam, mineral banks, forest edge, and tiny visitor figures in the distance. — Steam rises across a blue Yellowstone hot spring with pale mineral deposits and small visitors along the far edge.

1958 Yellowstone frame with blue geothermal water, soft steam plumes, mineral-streaked foreground, and a wooded background. — A steady view holds on blue geothermal water and steam above a pale mineral shoreline.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie view of a broad blue hot spring, low steam, pale mineral deposits, and small distant visitors at the edge. — The camera looks across the spring toward a pale far bank with tiny visitor figures and drifting steam.

1958 Yellowstone frame showing a steaming blue hot spring, white and gray mineral edges, distant treeline, and soft 8mm film texture. — Steam drifts over the blue pool as the mineral bank and treeline recede in soft home-movie focus.

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