Wyoming-1951: Old Faithful Geyser Erupting

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

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Old Faithful Geyser Erupting — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures Old Faithful geyser erupting at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The footage shows a powerful plume of steam and water rising from the geyser against a hazy sky, with rocky terrain visible in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, grain, and slight color fading—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1950s nature scene is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and retro-themed projects.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127665231

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: 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 8mm home-movie footage of Old Faithful helps document Yellowstone travel, geothermal landscapes, and mid-century park visitation for editorial or documentary use.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, hazy exposure, and visitor viewpoint support a 1951 home-movie context, though no clothing, vehicles, signs, or other datable objects are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, holding on the geyser plume and rocky foreground rather than presenting a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall steam and water plume, pale sky, dark geyser runoff channels, low rocky ground, soft horizon detail, film gate edges, and dust marks.
Film character: The footage has a mid-century 8mm texture with soft focus, muted color, grain, slight weave, exposure haze, and visible frame borders from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, travel insert, natural wonder transition, or memory beat within sequences about Yellowstone, road trips, or American park tourism.
Historical context: The scene shows Yellowstone’s Old Faithful as seen from a visitor camera, emphasizing geothermal spectacle and open landscape without visible crowds or built park infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or park-use requirements for the intended release.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1951 Yellowstone 8mm footage, Old Faithful geyser home movie, 1950s Wyoming travel film, and vintage national park geyser eruption.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1951 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel scenes, and then broader vintage national park, geyser, or mid-century road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 8mm Yellowstone footage showing Old Faithful steam and water rising behind dark rocky terrain. — Old Faithful erupts behind a low rocky foreground in a soft, hazy home-movie frame.

Old Faithful appears mid-eruption in Yellowstone, with steam drifting across a pale sky and rocky ground below. — The geyser plume rises and spreads across the sky while the foreground remains dark and rocky.

A visitor-shot 1951 8mm frame shows Old Faithful steam dispersing over Yellowstone’s rough geyser basin surface. — Steam drifts sideways over the geyser basin, softened by the film’s haze and grain.

Late in the clip, the Old Faithful plume is partly low in frame, with pale sky, film scratches, and dark frame borders visible. — The plume drops toward the lower frame as the scan reveals scratches, haze, and dark 8mm borders.

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