New York USA-1941: Bear In Cage Amidst Pink Flowers And Greenery

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 New York

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Bear In Cage Amidst Pink Flowers And Greenery — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1941: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a sun-drenched garden scene with vibrant pink flowering bushes and a large brown bear behind dark metal bars. The film, shot through vertical fence slats, shows the bear moving slowly in its enclosure, surrounded by lush greenery and blooming plants. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and a nostalgic, melancholy atmosphere, offering a rare glimpse of zoo life in the early 1940s.

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: 123127030

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1941 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s archive requests needing New York zoo or animal-enclosure home-movie footage as a brief documentary insert or atmospheric cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm color footage of a barred animal enclosure with planted flowers, a scene that may reflect mid-century zoo landscaping and visitor viewpoints.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, filmed through foreground bars and foliage as the bear moves slowly within the enclosure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, vertical metal cage bars, pink flowering shrubs, dense greenery, a paved enclosure edge, trees, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short animal-life insert, reflective transition, zoo cutaway, or memory beat within a broader New York or wartime-era home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a public animal display with ornamental planting, without enough detail to identify the specific zoo or enclosure.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, animal-display context, and any location/property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1941 New York 8mm bear in cage, vintage zoo flowers, home movie animal enclosure, and mid-century color zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other New York 1941 material, then with vintage zoo, animal enclosure, or garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1941 New York 8mm frame showing pink blossoms and dark foreground bars, with a partially obscured enclosure view behind them. — Pink blossoms and vertical bars obscure the animal enclosure.

1941 New York 8mm frame with a brown bear partly visible behind tall enclosure bars, surrounded by pink flowers and green planting. — A bear stands behind metal bars amid flowering shrubs.

1941 New York 8mm frame showing the bear moving within a barred enclosure, with pink shrubs and greenery in the foreground. — The bear moves slowly behind bars near flowering plants.

1941 New York 8mm frame with the bear partly obscured by cage bars, a tree trunk, pink flowering shrubs, and dense greenery. — Bars, flowers, and a tree trunk partly hide the bear.

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