Alaska USA-1977: A Lone Bear Roaming a Grassy Hillside

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

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A Lone Bear Roaming a Grassy Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures a lone brown bear roaming a grassy, hilly slope in Alaska. The bear moves slowly across the verdant landscape, its dark fur contrasting with the lush greenery and scattered shrubs. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows slight motion blur and natural film grain, conveying a raw, unscripted moment of wildlife in its natural habitat. The scene evokes a sense of quiet wilderness and nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of Alaskan wildlife from the late 1970s.

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: 123111035

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, museum, education, or commercial edits needing an observed bear in a natural hillside setting.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie scan, soft focus, grain, and handheld framing rather than clothing, vehicles, signage, or built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unscripted traveler or family observer filming wildlife from behind a window or frame while trying to follow a distant bear.
What appears in frame: A lone bear appears on a green hillside with shrubs, grasses, rocky soil, brush, soft focus, and dark vertical window or film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, mild blur, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that give the wildlife moment a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, wilderness cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about Alaska or 1970s outdoor travel.
Historical context: The clip visually places wildlife observation within a late-1970s home-movie travel context, without showing people, facilities, roads, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any wildlife-use or property-context questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1977 Alaska bear footage, 8mm brown bear hillside, vintage home movie wildlife, lone bear in grass, and Alaska wilderness cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1977 Alaska travel footage, then broader 1970s wildlife or wilderness home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant bear stands or moves slowly on a grassy Alaska hillside in 1977 8mm home-movie footage. — A lone bear appears small against a green, sloped hillside.

The bear is seen farther across the Alaska hillside, surrounded by green grass, scattered rocks, and brush. — The bear moves across a patchy green slope with rocky ground nearby.

A bear moves through brush below a rocky green hillside in soft, grainy 1977 Alaska 8mm footage. — The bear passes through low vegetation near a rocky hillside.

A blurred final view shows dense brush and rocky hillside where the bear is difficult to distinguish. — The shot softens into brush and rocky slope as the bear becomes hard to see.

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