Alaska USA-1977: Picture Of A Group Of Three Ice Bears On An Island

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 Alaska

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Picture Of A Group Of Three Ice Bears On An Island — Clip Details

ALASKA USA-1977: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a group of three polar bears on a snowy, icy landscape. The grainy, blue-tinted film shows the bears moving across the frozen terrain, with one bear standing on a raised ice formation. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, with visible film grain and a slightly distorted color palette typical of 1970s home movies. This authentic slice of nature footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123092909

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: 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 1785 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-02
Reel-level year note: 1977
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1977 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: Alaska, 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: 1970s Alaska 8mm nature footage for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of polar bears or bear-like ice figures in a snowy setting.
Period detail: The blue-tinted 8mm scan, soft focus, and contact-print framing support a 1970s home-movie feel, though no visible landmark or dated sign appears.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing the bears or figures from a fixed, slightly shaky distance rather than a controlled wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three pale bear forms, snow or ice, dark shadows, a textured background, frame borders, and blue-purple film color shift.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, soft exposure, blue color cast, gate edges, and handheld home-movie instability that mark it as scanned physical 8mm film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, nature cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a 1970s Alaska or Arctic-themed sequence.
Historical context: The frames reflect a visitor or family-film record of Alaska-associated winter wildlife imagery without visible people, signage, or identifiable site context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and any underlying location or exhibit permissions should still be checked.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s Alaska 8mm polar bears, vintage home movie Arctic animals, blue-tinted bear footage, and snowy wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Alaska 1977 travel footage, then broader 1970s 8mm nature, snow, ice, and wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Alaska 8mm home-movie frame with pale bear forms on snow or ice, seen through heavy blue color shift and film grain. — Pale bear forms appear on a snowy or icy surface in a blue-tinted 8mm frame.

Blue-shifted 1977 Alaska 8mm frame showing three pale bear-like forms on a snowy or icy surface. — Three pale bear-like forms sit or stand across a snowy surface.

Closer 8mm home-movie view of pale bear-like forms on snow or ice, with soft focus and blue-purple color shift. — The camera moves closer to pale bear-like forms on snow or ice.

Close 1977 Alaska 8mm frame of a pale bear-like form on snow or ice, with another form partly visible at the right edge. — A pale bear-like form is seen close up, with another form partly entering the frame.

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