Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Old Faithful Geyser Erupts With Tourists Watching

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

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Old Faithful Geyser Erupts With Tourists Watching — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures Old Faithful geyser erupting in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. A crowd of tourists in period clothing watches from a viewing platform as a powerful plume of steam and water shoots skyward against a backdrop of dense pine forest. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of a home movie, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American tourism and 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: 123482063

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 Yellowstone home-movie footage suited to editorial requests for Old Faithful, mid-century tourism, and national park travel inserts.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century visitors at a geyser overlook, with the 1958 date and Yellowstone location supported by clip metadata rather than readable signage.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming the eruption from the crowd, emphasizing the shared tourist experience around a landmark natural event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a geyser plume, drifting steam, dark pine forest, cloudy sky, film frame borders, and small tourists near the base.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, dust marks, and contact-sheet frame edges consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel-memory beat, natural-wonder cutaway, or transition within a Yellowstone or American tourism sequence.
Historical context: The clip places a geyser eruption within the visual culture of postwar family travel and public sightseeing at a national park landmark.
Research note: People appear small and not individually identifiable here, but likeness and location-context review should remain separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm, Old Faithful eruption home movie, vintage national park tourists, and 1950s Wyoming travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone material, then Old Faithful views, national park tourism, and broader 1950s travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing Old Faithful erupting with steam, pine forest, cloudy sky, and tourists near the base. — Old Faithful erupts as visitors watch from below the plume.

Old Faithful continues erupting in Yellowstone, with a bright vertical plume, spreading steam, forest backdrop, and 8mm frame edge. — A bright geyser column rises against the forest backdrop.

1958 Yellowstone frame with Old Faithful’s plume filling the view, steam drifting across dark trees and a cloudy sky. — Steam spreads across the frame as the eruption grows larger.

Yellowstone 8mm frame showing Old Faithful’s white plume and steam cloud with pine forest, cloudy sky, and visible film dust. — The geyser plume remains high as film dust and grain show in the scan.

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