Yellowstone Quest: Reel 1, 1929

This 1929 silent film, Unidentified Family Home Movies—Reel 1—Yellowstone Park #1, originally labeled "Yellowstone #1, July 1929," captures an unknown family’s journey through Yellowstone National Park. Purchased at a Walla Walla, Washington auction, this 16mm reel likely shows geysers like Old Faithful erupting, bison roaming grassy plains, and the family picnicking near Yellowstone Lake, filmed from a rattling Ford Model A. Grainy yet vivid, it offers a personal glimpse of America’s first national park in its early tourist heyday, preserved as an archival orphan.