New York USA-1939: Black Bear Roaming Stone Enclosure At Zoo

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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Black Bear Roaming Stone Enclosure At Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a black bear roaming freely within a zoo enclosure in New York USA. The bear walks across a series of stone steps and platforms, its dark fur contrasting against the light-colored rock structure. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural lighting, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in a mid-century urban zoo setting. The bear moves calmly, exploring its environment with quiet curiosity.

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: 123041612

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 1676 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jane
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: new york,washington
Date: 1939 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: New York, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s archival requests needing visitor-shot zoo wildlife footage, especially brief inserts of a black bear in an urban animal enclosure.
Period detail: The stonework, open enclosure, black-and-white 8mm texture, and metadata-supported 1939 New York setting may show a late-1930s zoo environment.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a visitor filming an animal exhibit, with the bear followed from a fixed or lightly handheld viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, stepped stone ledges, pale ground, masonry walls, shadows, and the dark borders of the film frame.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, mild motion blur, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that preserve its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short animal cutaway, zoo establishing insert, memory beat, or transition within a sequence about urban wildlife displays.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for how zoo animals were presented to visitors in a stone-built enclosure, without identifying the specific zoo from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, archive license, and any zoo or property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm New York zoo footage, black bear enclosure home movie, vintage animal exhibit, and 1930s wildlife in captivity.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York zoo material, then broader vintage bear or zoo-enclosure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A black bear moves through a stone zoo enclosure in metadata-supported 1939 New York home-movie footage. — Black bear crossing a stone-lined enclosure, partly obscured by frame edges.

The bear stands near low stone platforms inside the zoo enclosure, filmed from a visitor perspective in New York. — Bear viewed from behind beside the stepped stonework of the enclosure.

A black bear walks across a low stone ledge within a New York zoo enclosure, captured on 8mm film. — Bear walking across the enclosure ledge with masonry wall behind it.

The bear turns near scattered stone features and a stepped enclosure floor in this short 1939 zoo shot. — Bear moving near stone features at the end of the brief enclosure shot.

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