Wyoming-1951: Smoke From The Soil

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Wyoming

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Smoke From The Soil — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic geyser eruption in Wyoming. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a powerful plume of steam and water shooting skyward from a rocky vent, surrounded by forested hills under an overcast sky. In the first frame, two spectators—a person in a red and white checkered shirt and a young man in a white t-shirt—are seen observing the natural wonder. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and subtle camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of a Yellowstone-style geothermal event.

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: 127665119

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: 1951 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: 1950s Wyoming home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits needing a visitor view of a geothermal eruption and surrounding landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1950s travel clothing and amateur 8mm filming style, with spectators briefly framed before the steam plume dominates the view.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the visitor-shot perspective, with people watching from close range as the camera holds on the geyser-like burst rather than staging the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steam and water plume, rocky vent area, dark film-frame borders, forested ridges, overcast sky, and brief spectators in casual shirts.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, color fading, soft focus, handheld steadiness shifts, and contact-frame borders that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel-memory beat, nature cutaway, or transition into a sequence about Wyoming geothermal landscapes.
Historical context: The scene reflects midcentury leisure travel and observation of a natural thermal feature, while the exact site is not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: People are visible in the opening frame, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status is separate from depicted rights.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1951 Wyoming 8mm geyser footage, vintage home movie geothermal eruption, Yellowstone-style steam plume, and midcentury travel nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming or 1951 travel footage, then with broader vintage geyser, steam, and national-park nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing two spectators at the edge of view watching a geyser-like steam plume rise against distant ridges. — Spectators stand near the camera as a geothermal plume rises beyond a rocky vent.

1951 Wyoming home-movie frame of a geyser-like eruption, with pale steam and spray rising above rocks and dark forested ridges. — Steam and water surge upward from the rocky thermal feature.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame holding on the geyser-like plume as steam drifts upward from the rocky ground below a wooded ridge. — The camera holds on the plume as steam lifts above the vent area.

1951 Wyoming home-movie frame showing drifting steam over a rocky geyser area, with dark ridges, soft focus, and visible film scratches. — Drifting steam partially obscures the rocky ground near the end of the shot.

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