Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Bears Bathing In A Zoo On A Very Hot Summer Day

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationLincoln Park, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Lincoln Park Illinois

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Bears Bathing In A Zoo On A Very Hot Summer Day — Clip Details

LINCOLN PARK ILLINOIS USA-1972: Two brown bears rest and move within a stone zoo enclosure on a hot summer day. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animals lounging on tiered rock platforms, with one bear lying down and another shifting position. The naturalistic habitat features stacked stone walls and a small water feature, typical of 1970s zoo design. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel. This archival footage offers a candid glimpse into wildlife care and public zoo experiences of the era.

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: 124349153

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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 1405 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: planes,lake geneva,colby,brookfield zoo,shrman,lincoln park
Reel-level year note: 1972
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1972 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: Lincoln Park, Illinois, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1970s editorial or documentary requests for zoo animal care, summer heat, and visitor-shot wildlife footage in an urban American zoo setting.
Period detail: The stone enclosure, faded color, and 8mm home-movie texture may show 1970s zoo habitat design and casual visitor filming at Lincoln Park, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, watching bears rest and shift slowly during a hot day rather than presenting a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two brown bears, tiered stone ledges, a stone wall, shallow water or wet surface, enclosure shadows, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and contact-print edge darkness that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, heat-of-day insert, zoo sequence transition, or reflective memory beat about urban animal exhibits.
Historical context: The scene documents bears in a constructed stone zoo enclosure, offering visual context for public wildlife display and animal observation in the early 1970s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright, zoo property context, and location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1972 Lincoln Park zoo bears, 8mm zoo animals, brown bears bathing, hot summer zoo footage, and 1970s home movie wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo footage, then Lincoln Park or Illinois material from 1972, and finally broader 1970s zoo or animal enclosure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two brown bears rest apart on tiered stone ledges in the Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, filmed on 8mm in 1972. — Two bears lie low against the stone ledges of the enclosure.

In the Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, one bear lies near the foreground while another rests farther back against the stone wall. — The bears stay separated on different stone levels within the exhibit.

A bear lies on the lower stone platform as the second bear appears partly obscured near the back wall of the Lincoln Park enclosure. — One bear rests in the foreground while the other is partly hidden near the wall.

One brown bear rises or shifts position near the wall while another remains lying on the lower ledge in the 1972 Lincoln Park zoo scene. — One bear moves upright as the other continues resting on the stone ledge.

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