Wyoming-1939: Sulfurous Boiling Lakes And Geysers Beside A Pathway At Mount

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

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Sulfurous Boiling Lakes And Geysers Beside A Pathway At... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a geothermal landscape in Wyoming, featuring steaming sulfurous pools and bubbling geysers. The footage shows a natural pathway winding through the rugged terrain, with steam rising from the earth and rocky formations surrounding the boiling waters. The warm, yellowish tones and film grain evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a rare glimpse of Yellowstone National Park's geothermal activity during 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: 127609017

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: 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 Wyoming or Yellowstone-related documentary sequences needing visitor-shot geothermal scenery and early tourism context.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s park visitation through a dark-clad person on a simple pathway near steaming mineral ground.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a visitor's perspective, alternating between a person near the walkway and close views of boiling, steaming pools.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pathway, a standing visitor, steam clouds, pale mineral deposits, yellowish water, rocky edges, and sparse trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan has heavy grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, gate shadows, and warm color shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for geothermal landscapes, park travel, or prewar home-movie tourism.
Historical context: The frames place human visitors close to active geothermal features, offering visual context for park sightseeing before modern visitor infrastructure is evident.
Research note: Copyright, location access, and any visible person's likeness should be reviewed separately; the distant figure is not clearly identifiable in these frames.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1939 8mm Yellowstone geysers, Wyoming sulfur pools home movie, and 1930s geothermal park footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Wyoming or Yellowstone material, then with broader geothermal and national park travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing a visitor on a pathway beside rough geothermal terrain and a pale cylindrical object. — Visitor standing on a path near rough ground at a geothermal site.

1939 Wyoming frame with steam lifting from a sulfur-colored geothermal pool beside mineral deposits and sparse trees. — Steam rising from a pale geothermal pool and mineral crust.

Close 1939 Wyoming home-movie view of a steaming yellow geothermal pool bordered by pale mineral deposits and rough rock. — Steaming mineral pool with yellow water and crusted edges.

1939 Wyoming frame showing drifting steam over a yellow geothermal pool, rocky margins, and sparse trees beyond the basin. — Steam drifting over a yellow geothermal pool and rocky mineral basin.

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