Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: The Mountains Were Looking So Beautiful So Many

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

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The Mountains Were Looking So Beautiful So Many — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures breathtaking views of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The footage features a serene alpine lake nestled among rugged mountains, with dense evergreen forests lining the slopes. The camera pans across the landscape, revealing dramatic rock formations and a deep valley under a soft, overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a dominant blue-purple tint typical of 1950s color film. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American nature tourism, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123482539

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 mountain scenery for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, nature-tourism context, or mid-century American vacation atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm home-movie scenery with mid-century film color shifts, but no vehicles, clothing, signage, or buildings are visible to independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering on lake, cliffs, forest, and valley rather than staged action or formal scenic coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an alpine lake, rugged mountain slopes, evergreen forest, pale rock faces, a deep valley, distant hills, and overcast sky.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, uneven exposure, and blue-purple color fading consistent with aged color reversal film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, quiet memory beat, or establishing insert for a Yellowstone or western U.S. landscape sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects recreational viewing of national-park mountain scenery through a home-movie camera, without visible people, facilities, or visitor infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status, park filming context, and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm Yellowstone mountains, vintage Wyoming alpine lake, home movie national park scenery, and mid-century western travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming material, then broader 1950s national-park and mountain-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame showing a blue alpine lake, forested shoreline, and pale rock faces beneath steep mountains. — A lake and forested slope sit below rugged mountain walls in the opening view.

Yellowstone-area 8mm frame with a broad lake, evergreen shoreline, and rugged mountain terrain in faded blue-purple color. — The camera frames a wider section of the lake with forest and rock rising beyond it.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie view looking across a deep mountain valley, with a steep rocky slope in the foreground and blue hills beyond. — A valley opens between dark mountain slopes, seen from a high roadside or overlook position.

Faded 8mm Yellowstone frame showing a broad mountain valley, ridged slopes, scattered trees, and a rocky foreground hillside. — The final view looks down into a broad valley framed by rugged slopes and distant ridges.

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