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Wyoming USA-1939: Sea Lions Exploring The Pier

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

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Sea Lions Exploring The Pier — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1939 in Wyoming USA, showing sea lions exploring a wooden pier. The clip captures the animals moving across the weathered planks near a metal railing, with deep blue ocean waves visible in the background. A partially visible sign reads 'LIMIT PER DAY PERSON'. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with warm color tones, natural grain, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife interacting with a man-made structure in a serene coastal setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
121490741

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • People visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: Yes
  • 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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Topics & Keywords

  • beach
  • ocean
  • animals
  • waves
  • dock
  • sea
  • lions
  • exploring
  • pier
  • wildlife
  • wyoming USA
  • 1939
  • 1939 sea lion footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Wyoming USA wildlife
  • 8mm home movie
  • ocean pier scene
  • sea lions on dock
  • archival wildlife footage
  • classic Super 8
  • vintage ocean footage
  • 1930s home movie
  • wildlife exploring
  • wooden pier
  • blue ocean waves
  • old film grain
  • retro wildlife clip
  • historical animal footage
  • nostalgic 1939 footage
  • sea lion behavior
  • vintage documentary
  • 8mm archival clip

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1930s 8mm animal footage useful for documentary inserts about wildlife around piers, waterfront attractions, or home-movie travel records.
Period detail
The weathered wooden pier, pipe railing, partial posted limit sign, and color 8mm texture may show a late-1930s visitor view of a managed waterfront setting.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the feel of an unstaged visitor filming sea lions as they move and rest on a pier from a nearby vantage point.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include sea lions, blue water, wooden planks, dark pier posts, pipe railing, film frame borders, and a partially readable limit sign.
Film character
The footage shows dense grain, saturated blue water, slight blur, gate shadows, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for wildlife, seaside leisure, travel, or archival animal behavior sequences.
Historical context
The scene suggests public viewing of animals near a waterfront structure, but the frames alone do not identify the site, operator, or event.
Research note
No people are visible, but the partial sign and site identity may need review; copyright, location, trademark, and property issues should be checked separately.
Research search match
1939 8mm sea lions on pier, vintage home movie waterfront animals, 1930s wildlife near dock, archival sea lion footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming 1939 metadata matches, then with other vintage pier, waterfront, or sea lion footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 home-movie frame showing sea lions on a wooden pier near blue water, pipe railing, and a partly visible limit sign.
Sea lions rest on the pier beside a railing and partially readable sign.
1939 home-movie frame of a waterfront pier with blue water, pipe railing, vertical posts, and a partly readable limit sign.
The camera frames the pier, railing, water, and posted limit sign between dark film borders.
1939 home-movie frame with a sea lion partly visible by the pier edge, blue water, railing, and partial limit sign.
A sea lion moves near the pier edge while the sign and railing remain in view.
1939 home-movie frame showing several sea lions stretched along a sloped wooden pier with blue water behind them.
Several sea lions occupy the sloped pier surface with rippling water in the background.

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