Alaska USA-1977: Two Brown Bears Walking On A Grassy Hillside

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

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Two Brown Bears Walking On A Grassy Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures two brown bears walking across a lush green hillside in Alaska. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8, shows the animals moving through dense vegetation near a river or coastline. The natural, unsteady camera movement and film grain lend an authentic, archival quality to this wildlife observation. The scene evokes a sense of remote wilderness and untouched nature, offering a nostalgic glimpse into Alaskan fauna from the late 1970s.

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: 123110785

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Alaska wildlife requests needing authentic 8mm home-movie footage of brown bears moving across open tundra or grassy hillside habitat.
Period detail: The visible era clues come mainly from the 8mm film format, rounded dark frame edges, grain, soft focus, and handheld exposure rather than from datable human-made objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged visitor or traveler observation, with the camera following distant bears from a cautious vantage point across a green slope.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two brown bears, steep green vegetation, pale water or riverbed, dark film borders, soft focus, handheld framing, and hillside terrain.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm texture with grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and gate shadows that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, Alaska travel insert, wilderness transition, or brief memory beat within a 1970s nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a home-movie encounter with bears in Alaska, emphasizing remote habitat and tourist-era wildlife watching without visible buildings, roads, or people.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife identification, location specificity, and copyright status should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1977 Alaska 8mm brown bears, vintage home movie bear footage, Super 8 Alaska wildlife, and bears on grassy hillside near water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Alaska travel shots, then with 1977 Alaska wildlife or landscape footage, then with broader vintage bear and wilderness material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 8mm Alaska footage shows two distant brown bears crossing a grassy hillside near a pale riverbed or shoreline. — Two bears move across a green slope near pale water or exposed riverbed.

Two brown bears appear on a lush Alaska hillside in soft, grainy 8mm home-movie footage from 1977. — Separated bears continue across the steep, grassy hillside.

A closer bear and a more distant bear move through brush on a green Alaska hillside in archival 8mm footage. — One bear is nearer the camera while another remains farther across the slope.

The final frame shows a brown bear on an Alaska hillside, with pale shoreline or riverbed visible below the vegetation. — A bear stands or walks on the green slope above pale exposed ground or water.

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