Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Mountains Look Small From A Distance But Up Close

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

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Mountains Look Small From A Distance But Up Close — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures sweeping views of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The footage reveals rugged mountain peaks, some capped with snow, and a serene alpine lake nestled in the valley below. Dense evergreen forests blanket the slopes, and the camera pans across the vast landscape, emphasizing the scale of the wilderness. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a strong sense of mid-century Americana and outdoor adventure. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1950s travel and nature.

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: 123482508

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 travel footage for documentary inserts, park-history segments, education projects, or memory sequences needing mountain-and-lake landscape views.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century home-movie color and handheld framing, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, buildings, or dated objects beyond the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on distant peaks, snow patches, evergreen slopes, and an alpine lake from an elevated overlook.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rugged gray mountains, scattered snowfields, a blue alpine lake, dark evergreen forest, rocky slopes, valley terrain, and contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement as part of its physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a landscape cutaway, travel-memory insert, wilderness transition, or establishing beat within a 1950s park or road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects postwar recreational park travel through a private home-movie lens, showing scenery rather than visitor activity or park infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location identification, and production-use clearance should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 Yellowstone 8mm mountains, vintage Wyoming alpine lake, 1950s national park home movie, and snow-capped peaks travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming views, then broader vintage national park mountain landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a rocky mountain, alpine lake, and evergreen slopes from a distant overlook. — Rocky mountain, lake, and forested valley seen from an elevated viewpoint.

1958 Yellowstone landscape frame with a snow-streaked ridge and pale rocky outcrop above dark forested terrain. — Snow-streaked ridge and pale rock face dominate the distant mountain view.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie view across a broad mountain basin with lingering snow patches and a rocky foreground edge. — Broad mountain basin with snow patches and soft, faded 8mm color.

1958 Yellowstone frame showing a shadowed mountain slope, snow patches, evergreen forest, and part of a pale rocky outcrop. — Shadowed mountain slope, snow patches, and forested terrain near a rocky outcrop.

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