Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1971: Herd of Elk Walking Along Roadside in Yellowstone

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationYellowstone, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Herd of Elk Walking Along Roadside in Yellowstone — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a herd of elk walking along a roadside in Yellowstone National Park. The footage, viewed through a car window, shows the animals moving across a grassy clearing bordered by tall pine trees under a clear daytime sky. Some elk stand while others rest on the ground, with a small wooden structure visible in the background. The natural, unscripted movement and authentic film grain evoke a sense of mid-century Americana and wildlife observation.

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: 124747535

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: 1971 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Yellowstone wildlife footage for documentary inserts, road-trip sequences, park visitation context, or archival cutaways of elk near a roadway.
Period detail: The car-window viewpoint, 8mm color texture, roadside pavement, and unfenced park clearing support a 1971 visitor home-movie reading without adding more specific period claims.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor observation from inside a vehicle as elk move and rest close to a park road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include elk, a roadside, grassy clearing, pine trees, a low log barrier, a small wooden shelter, car-window framing, and handheld film movement.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, transition into Yellowstone material, or insert for park road ecology.
Historical context: The footage shows close roadside wildlife viewing in Yellowstone, with elk moving through a managed park landscape as seen by a passing visitor.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location permissions, and any park-use requirements should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 8mm Yellowstone elk, vintage home movie wildlife by road, 1970s national park animals, and elk herd roadside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Yellowstone or Wyoming park footage, then broader vintage wildlife and road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 8mm Yellowstone footage showing elk moving near a roadside with pine trees, grass, and a small wooden shelter in the background. — Elk pass along a roadside clearing as seen through a vehicle window.

A herd of elk appears beside a Yellowstone road, with some animals standing and others resting in a grassy clearing. — Elk gather and rest in the grass near the roadway.

Motion-blurred 8mm frame of elk near a paved Yellowstone road, with pine trees and grass beyond the roadside. — Handheld motion blurs the elk as the camera passes the roadside herd.

A bull elk with antlers walks near smaller elk beside a Yellowstone road, framed by trees, grass, and the edge of a car window. — A bull elk moves past the roadside as other elk remain nearby.

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