Wyoming USA-1939: A Small Black Bear Forages In The Woods

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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A Small Black Bear Forages In The Woods — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1939 in Wyoming, USA, showing a small black bear foraging in a dense forest. The bear moves through the underbrush, its dark silhouette visible against green foliage and tree trunks. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, soft focus, and natural color tones with slight fading. The shot is framed by the camera's black borders, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in its natural habitat. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century nature observation.

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: 121490576

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: 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: 1930s Wyoming 8mm wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts, natural-history cutaways, or archive sequences about amateur travel and outdoor observation.
Period detail: The 1939 date is supported by metadata, while the frames themselves mainly show a small black bear in dense woods without visible landmarks or other era-specific details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, with a distant handheld camera observing a bear foraging rather than arranging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small black bear, forest underbrush, conifer-like trees, pale ground, dark film borders, and uneven natural light.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and thick black frame edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, a travel-reel insert, a quiet transition, or a memory beat within a 1930s outdoor sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually records amateur wildlife observation in a wooded Wyoming setting, without enough detail to identify a specific park, trail, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but copyright status and any location-specific property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm black bear, vintage home movie wildlife, bear foraging in forest, and 1930s amateur nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming 1939 material, and then with related vintage wildlife or forest travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small black bear appears as a dark silhouette in dense Wyoming woods in 1939 home-movie footage. — A small bear is barely visible in shadowed forest cover.

A small black bear forages with its back to the camera among green brush in 1939 Wyoming woods. — The bear stands with its back to the camera in dense greenery.

A small black bear remains low in the frame, partly softened by 8mm focus and surrounding Wyoming forest growth. — The bear is centered near the lower edge of the wooded frame.

A small black bear bends near brush and pale ground in a wooded Wyoming setting from 1939 8mm footage. — The bear bends toward the ground while foraging near brush.

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