Alaska USA-1977: Two Brown Bears Climbing Up The Grassy Hillside

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

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Two Brown Bears Climbing Up The Grassy Hillside — Clip Details

ALASKA USA-1977: Two brown bears navigate a steep, grassy hillside in this vintage 8mm home movie. Shot on Super 8 film, the footage captures the bears moving through dense green vegetation, their brown fur contrasting with the lush landscape. The handheld camera follows their ascent, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in their natural habitat. The image quality reflects the era's film stock, with soft focus and natural grain, evoking a sense of raw, unfiltered nature. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content about Alaskan wildlife.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123110845

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: 1970s Alaska wildlife home-movie footage for documentary inserts about bears, wilderness travel, or archival nature observation.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm/Super 8 color texture, soft handheld framing, and home-movie treatment rather than dated objects or built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or traveler filming opportunistically from a distance as two bears move across a steep green slope.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two brown bears, dense green hillside vegetation, uneven terrain, soft focus, handheld framing, and film-frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm film character with visible grain, muted greens, slight exposure variation, and handheld tracking of moving wildlife.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, wilderness memory beat, or transitional insert within a sequence on Alaska travel or bear habitat.
Historical context: The scene documents brown bears in a grassy Alaskan landscape through a 1970s home-movie lens, without visible people, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location specificity, copyright status, and any habitat-use claims should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1977 Alaska 8mm bears, Super 8 brown bears on hillside, vintage home movie wildlife, and archival Alaska nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1977 Alaska footage, then broader vintage wildlife or bear-habitat home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Alaska 8mm frame showing two brown bears moving through dense green vegetation on a steep hillside. — Two bears move separately across a brushy hillside.

1977 Alaska 8mm frame of two brown bears spaced apart on a brush-covered hillside, filmed from a distance. — The bears continue along the green hillside.

1977 Alaska home-movie frame showing two brown bears moving through shrubs and grass on a steep slope. — Two bears traverse the brush-covered slope.

1977 Alaska 8mm frame showing two brown bears close together amid tall green vegetation on a hillside. — The bears appear close together in taller vegetation.

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