Yellowstone Park Wyoming-1967: Geyser Eruption With Hilly Background

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationYellowstone Park, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Geyser Eruption With Hilly Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic geyser eruption at Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. The sequence begins with blank frames showing film grain and scratches, building anticipation before the geyser bursts into view. A powerful surge of water and steam shoots skyward against a backdrop of forested hills and a bright, overcast sky. The natural spectacle unfolds in classic Super 8 color, with the iconic landscape and erupting geyser creating a nostalgic, archival moment of American nature. Ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic storytelling.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: 124541127

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: 1967 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 Park, 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: Supports 1960s American travel and nature archive requests needing visitor-shot 8mm footage of a Yellowstone geyser eruption.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and home-movie framing, with the 1967 Yellowstone setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering through blank leader-like frames before catching the geyser surge from a fixed outdoor vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blank film frames, dark frame edges, geyser spray, steam, forested hills, open sky, and a distant Yellowstone landscape.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, dust specks, soft focus, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief nature insert, travel-memory beat, or transition from abstract film texture into a recognizable geyser eruption.
Historical context: The scene places a mid-century park visit within Yellowstone's open landscape, showing natural spectacle through an amateur travel-film lens.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1967 8mm Yellowstone geyser eruption, vintage home movie geyser, Wyoming park travel footage, and steam eruption landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1967 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage geyser and American park scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blank-looking 8mm frame from the 1967 Yellowstone clip, showing purple-gray exposure, dark gate edges, and film specks. — Blank exposed film frame with dark border and visible grain before the geyser appears.

Soft, nearly blank 8mm frame from the Yellowstone home movie, with dark gate edge, grain, and faint exposure variation. — Nearly blank transitional film frame with gate-edge darkness and archival 8mm texture.

Underexposed or blank-looking 8mm frame within the 1967 Yellowstone sequence, showing film grain, dust, and dark frame edges. — Blank section of the reel showing physical-film texture before the visible eruption frame.

1967 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a geyser erupting with white steam and water against forested hills and pale sky. — Geyser water and steam rise in front of forested hills in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.

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