Wyoming-1939: Geyser Erupting with Steam

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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Geyser Erupting with Steam — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a powerful geyser eruption in Wyoming. Thick plumes of steam and water shoot skyward from a geothermal basin, set against a dark forested backdrop. The footage shows the geyser's full eruption cycle, with billowing white steam rising and dispersing into the overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic archival texture, with visible film scratches and edge damage. This historic natural event is recorded with a steady, observational camera angle, offering a rare glimpse of Yellowstone's geothermal activity from the late 1930s.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608809

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: 1939 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: 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: Useful for 1930s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot 8mm footage of a Wyoming geyser eruption in a forested geothermal setting.
Period detail: The frames show no clothing, vehicles, signage, or architecture, so the 1939 period is supported by clip metadata rather than visible era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a steady tourist-observation viewpoint, watching the eruption cycle without staged action or visible human subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a geyser plume, low steam near the ground, dark conifer forest, pale overcast sky, rough geyser basin surface, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, grain, faded color, vertical scratches, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a natural-history insert, Yellowstone-area cutaway, geothermal transition, or brief archival memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a visitor perspective on Wyoming geothermal activity, with the eruption framed against forest and sky rather than interpretive signage or people.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, location specificity, and any park-use requirements should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Wyoming geyser eruption, vintage Yellowstone geothermal footage, forest backdrop steam plume, and archival home movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1939 Wyoming or Yellowstone views, then broader vintage geothermal, national park, and natural wonder footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a geyser eruption beginning or receding near a conifer forest under a pale sky. — Steam spreads across the geyser basin with forest visible behind it.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with a large geyser plume rising sharply near a forested backdrop. — A dense geyser plume climbs above the forest edge.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame where the geyser steam expands across the view, partly obscuring the forest. — The eruption cloud widens and softens across the frame.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing lingering geyser steam drifting beside the dark conifer forest. — Steam hangs over the basin as the forest remains visible at left.

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