Calcutta India-1962: Couple Black Bears Playing In Forest One Of Them Tries To Mount

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 in Calcutta India

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Couple Black Bears Playing In Forest One Of Them Tries... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures two black bears playfully interacting in a natural, earthy enclosure. One bear mounts the other in a dynamic, playful embrace, their dark fur contrasting with the dry ground and rocky backdrop. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This rare glimpse of wildlife behavior offers authentic, unscripted animal footage ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical content.

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: 123723875

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$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 1399 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: feb
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: india,calcuta,bengali
Date: 1962 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: Calcutta, India 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves 1960s South Asia documentary requests needing authentic wildlife or zoo footage with the texture of home-movie 8mm stock.
Period detail: Classic 8mm grain, muted warm palette, and narrow film-sprocket borders are consistent with early-1960s amateur film stock; no anachronistic elements visible.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor appears to have filmed opportunistically through an enclosure barrier, capturing close animal behaviour with an unsteady handheld camera.
What appears in frame: Two dark-furred bears wrestling, rearing, and mounting on a dry earthen floor; scattered sticks and leaf litter; a rocky stone wall backdrop; 8mm sprocket border artifacts.
Film character: Visible 8mm grain, slight warm colour shift, soft focus edges, and handheld wobble give the footage an authentic archival texture consistent with early-1960s amateur film.
Edit role: Works as a short cutaway insert in wildlife, zoo, or vintage travelogue sequences; at five seconds it pairs best with adjacent footage to build a fuller scene.
Historical context: The rocky walled enclosure backdrop suggests a managed setting, possibly a city zoo, rather than open forest; the India attribution is based on metadata, not visible landmarks.
Research note: No identifiable people, logos, or trademarks are visible in any frame; underlying copyright ownership should be verified before commercial broadcast licensing.
Research search match: Researchers may search for '1960s India wildlife footage,' 'vintage zoo bear 8mm,' 'black bear enclosure home movie,' or 'South Asia animal film 1962.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same India travelogue reel; then with 1960s South Asian zoo or wildlife footage; then with other short animal behaviour cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two black bears grappling upright in what appears to be a zoo enclosure, possibly Calcutta area, circa 1962, shot on 8mm film. — Two black bears wrestle in an earthen enclosure, c. 1962.

Two black bears in close contact near a rocky wall, likely a zoo enclosure, possibly Calcutta, circa 1962, 8mm home movie footage. — Black bears close together near rocky enclosure wall, c. 1962.

Two black bears in dynamic postures in what appears to be a rocky enclosure, possibly Calcutta, India, circa 1962, shot on 8mm film. — Black bears in dynamic interaction, rocky enclosure, c. 1962.

Two black bears with one mounting the other on dry earthen ground, possibly a zoo enclosure near Calcutta, circa 1962, 8mm footage. — Black bear mounting behaviour on dry ground, c. 1962.

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