Yellowstone Park Wyoming-1967: Factory Smokestack Spewing Black Smoke on Frozen Lake

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

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Factory Smokestack Spewing Black Smoke on Frozen Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a frozen lake in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with a factory smokestack spewing thick black smoke into the overcast sky. The scene shows a stark contrast between the natural winter landscape and industrial pollution, with silhouetted figures walking across the ice. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, documentary-style feel, offering a poignant glimpse of mid-century environmental conditions.

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: 124541512

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: 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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a brief industrial pollution or winter landscape cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, winter clothing silhouettes, and distant industrial plant may show a late-1960s visitor-shot view supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of people moving across a frozen lake while the camera lingers on a smoking stack across the shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include frozen lake ice, small walking figures, a distant tree line, low industrial buildings, a smokestack, dark smoke, pale sky, and film frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, handheld framing, and contact-sheet gate edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, environmental cutaway, winter transition, or memory beat contrasting recreation with nearby industrial smoke.
Historical context: The scene visually contrasts outdoor winter activity on ice with a distant industrial stack, without proving the source, ownership, or environmental impact of the smoke.
Research note: People are visible only as distant silhouettes, but likeness, location, copyright, and any property-related issues should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1967 8mm frozen lake, Yellowstone Park winter, smokestack smoke, industrial pollution, and home-movie environmental footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Yellowstone Park 1967 winter footage, then broader 1960s industrial smoke or frozen lake scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 8mm home-movie frame showing a frozen lake in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with distant figures on the ice and a low wooded shoreline. — Small figures cross the frozen lake with a dark shoreline in the distance.

1967 8mm home-movie frame of a frozen lake with distant industrial buildings and a smokestack emitting dark smoke near the shoreline. — A smokestack releases dark smoke above the far shore of the frozen lake.

1967 8mm home-movie frame showing the frozen lake foreground and a distant smokestack with dark smoke above low industrial structures. — The camera holds on the distant plant and smoke across the ice.

1967 8mm home-movie frame of a dark smoke plume rising from a distant stack beyond a frozen lake in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. — Dark smoke drifts from a stack beyond the frozen shoreline.

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