Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: Big Black Bear Walks Along Road On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYellowstone, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Big Black Bear Walks Along Road On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a big black bear walking along a paved road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The bear moves through a forested area with tall pine trees, its dark silhouette contrasting against the bright, sunny day. The footage shows natural wildlife behavior in a rugged, scenic landscape with rocky terrain and distant hills under a partly cloudy sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic archival charm, making it ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American 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: 123481686

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1958 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: Yellowstone, Wyoming, 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

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: 1950s Yellowstone home-movie wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts about park travel, roadside animals, and mid-century American vacation filming.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1958 visitor view of Yellowstone, with paved park road, forest edge, bare geothermal-looking terrain, distant hills, and handheld 8mm framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, observing a bear from the road and briefly scanning nearby landscape rather than staging wildlife action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, paved road, pine trees, pale rocky ground, distant wooded hills, partly cloudy sky, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, and handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition between Yellowstone landscape and roadside visitor experience.
Historical context: The footage reflects a mid-century park-tourism viewpoint, where wildlife and scenic terrain are recorded from close roadside proximity without added narration.
Research note: Metadata flags people visible in the clip, though not in these sampled stills; review likeness, copyright, and any park-use context separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Yellowstone black bear road, vintage Wyoming wildlife home movie, and mid-century national park travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming material, then broader vintage national park wildlife and road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Yellowstone view of pale rocky ground, distant forested hills, and clouds, framed by dark film edges. — Rocky Yellowstone landscape and distant hills appear before the roadside bear view.

1958 Yellowstone landscape frame with pale mineral-looking ground, low hills, clouds, and heavy film gate shadowing. — The camera holds on open rocky terrain with wooded hills in the distance.

1958 8mm Yellowstone frame showing pale ground, distant wooded slope, and small indistinct roadside or landscape details. — A wider landscape view shows pale terrain below a dark forested ridge.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame of a black bear moving along a paved road at the edge of tall pine trees. — A black bear walks beside the road at the forest edge in Yellowstone.

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