Wisconsin USA-1954: Bears in Rocky Zoo Enclosure

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Bears in Rocky Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1954 in Wisconsin, USA, showing three bears in a rocky zoo enclosure. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the bears walking and standing among artificial rock formations under bright sunlight. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with natural film grain and slight motion blur, typical of amateur Super 8 recordings from the mid-20th century. The bears appear calm, exploring their habitat in a classic mid-century wildlife display.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120766122

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin home-movie requests needing zoo animal footage, mid-century leisure context, or brief bear enclosure cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 1954 8mm metadata and washed color home-movie texture support a mid-1950s setting, while the visible rocky zoo enclosure suggests a period wildlife display without identifying a specific zoo or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing bears from outside the enclosure with a casual handheld framing typical of family zoo outings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several bears, pale artificial rockwork, a flat sunlit enclosure floor, shadowed rock recesses, ledge-like formations, and strong midday shadows.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, exposure variation, and handheld framing that add archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short animal cutaway, zoo visit insert, transition within a family travel sequence, or quiet memory beat about mid-century public attractions.
Historical context: The scene visually documents bears displayed in a constructed rocky habitat, offering context for how zoo animals were presented to visitors in a mid-century home-movie record.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status, zoo/property permissions, and species or venue identification should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 Wisconsin 8mm zoo bears, vintage home movie bear enclosure, mid-century zoo animal footage, and rocky wildlife habitat cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1954 Wisconsin material, then with zoo, animal, bear, and family outing footage from the same era.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin 8mm home-movie frame showing bears among pale artificial rocks in a sunlit zoo enclosure. — Bears in a rocky zoo habitat.

Bears appear near a ledge and pale rock formations in a Wisconsin zoo enclosure recorded on 8mm film in 1954. — Bears near the rock ledge.

A bear stands near the foreground of a rocky zoo habitat, with additional bear forms partly obscured by shadow in the 1954 Wisconsin footage. — Bear beside the enclosure ledge.

Final 8mm frame shows bears close to a pale artificial rock wall in the Wisconsin zoo enclosure, with soft focus and strong sunlight. — Bears against the rock wall.

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