Yellowstone Wyoming USA-1958: A Bear Comes To The Edge Of The Road And Climbs

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

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A Bear Comes To The Edge Of The Road And Climbs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a black bear at the edge of a forest road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The bear walks along the roadside, its dark silhouette contrasting against the sun-dappled pine forest. Filmed from inside a vehicle, the footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during a classic mid-century road trip. The scene evokes nostalgia and a sense of adventure, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123481730

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: 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 8mm Yellowstone wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, road-trip context, park visitation sequences, and archival nature cutaways.
Period detail: The vehicle-window viewpoint, paved park road, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s home-movie travel scene without showing identifiable vehicles, signs, or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot encounter from inside a car as a bear moves near the roadside, giving the moment an unstaged tourist-home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, paved road edge, pine forest, sunlit trunks, roadside grass, dark frame borders, and a greenish vehicle-window edge.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edges that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, Yellowstone travel cutaway, mid-century road-trip beat, or transition into public-lands recreation material.
Historical context: The scene documents a roadside bear encounter within a national-park travel setting, reflecting visitor observation of wildlife from a vehicle rather than a staged animal scene.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife use, location claims, and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1950s 8mm Yellowstone bear footage, vintage national park wildlife roadside scene, and home movie black bear near forest road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage national-park wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a black bear at the roadside beside sunlit pine trees, viewed from inside a vehicle. — A bear stands near the forested edge of a park road.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame of a black bear moving along the roadside, partly framed by the car window and forest shadows. — The bear walks along the road edge in front of dense pine woods.

1958 Yellowstone 8mm frame showing a bear close to the road shoulder, with bright tree trunks and forest understory behind it. — The bear remains close to the road shoulder beside the forest.

1958 Yellowstone home-movie frame of a black bear beside a paved park road, seen through the edge of a vehicle window. — A vehicle-framed view catches the bear beside the park road.

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