Wyoming USA-1939: Black Bear Pauses By The Road And Attracts Curious Travelers

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

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Black Bear Pauses By The Road And Attracts Curious Travelers — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939 captures a black bear pausing on a dirt road in a forested area. A classic 1930s automobile is parked nearby, with its chrome grille and round headlight visible. The bear, with a dark coat and lighter snout, turns to look directly at the camera, creating a moment of quiet curiosity. The scene is framed by dense evergreen trees and fallen leaves, with natural daylight illuminating the woodland setting. The footage exhibits characteristic film grain, color fading, and slight motion blur typical of amateur 8mm film from the era.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121490636

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: 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

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 1930s U.S. travel, wildlife encounter, and roadside national-park or forest-tourism sequences needing authentic home-movie texture.
Period detail: The rounded automobile fender, chrome grille, round headlight, and 8mm color home-movie look support a late-1930s roadside travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective as travelers pause near a bear and film the animal from close range beside the road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, dirt road, parked 1930s car, chrome bumper, round headlight, evergreen woods, fallen leaves, and soft daylight.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, color fading, gate softness, slight blur, and handheld framing that read as original amateur 8mm archive material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or brief transition between road-trip and forest recreation scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows how roadside wildlife encounters could become part of a domestic travel film, with the camera lingering on the bear near a parked car.
Research note: People are flagged for the clip, though faces are not clear in these stills; review copyright separately from likeness, property, and wildlife-use context.
Research search match: Research matches include 1939 Wyoming home movie bear, 1930s roadside wildlife footage, vintage 8mm black bear by car, and forest travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Wyoming 1939 travel footage, then broader 1930s U.S. roadside wildlife and forest-tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Wyoming 1939 home-movie footage, a black bear pauses near a dirt road while a rounded 1930s car faces the camera. — A black bear stands near a dirt road as a 1930s automobile waits close by in the woods.

The bear turns toward the camera beside a dirt road, with the front of a dark 1930s automobile visible at the frame edge. — The bear looks toward the camera while the car's headlight and fender remain close at the roadside.

A black bear moves along the roadside in the forest, with a dark car's rounded fender and headlight partly visible at right. — The bear shifts position near the road as the parked automobile remains just inside the frame.

The bear faces the camera near the road edge, framed by forest ground and the partial front of a 1930s automobile. — The bear pauses near the car, facing the camera in a close roadside wildlife encounter.

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