Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Bear Swimming And Walking In Zoo Enclosure

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

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Bear Swimming And Walking In Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a brown bear in its zoo enclosure at Lincoln Park, Illinois. The bear is seen swimming in a shallow pool, then emerging and walking across the rocky terrain. The footage shows the animal's thick fur and natural movements within its habitat, with stone walls and water features visible. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic 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: 124349155

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 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: 1970s 8mm zoo footage for documentary or education edits needing a brief animal enclosure scene from Lincoln Park, Illinois.
Period detail: The stone-and-concrete zoo enclosure, faded color, and 8mm grain support a 1972 home-movie view, though no dated signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the bear from a visitor viewpoint, emphasizing an unstaged home-movie record of zoo animal movement rather than a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, shallow pool area, rock-textured enclosure walls, concrete ledges, dark frame borders, and film dust marks.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm texture with warm faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, animal insert, zoo memory beat, or transition within a 1970s urban leisure sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows a public zoo setting where visitors filmed captive animals in constructed rock-and-water habitats during the early 1970s.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but users should review copyright status and any zoo property or location permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 8mm bear at Lincoln Park zoo, brown bear swimming in enclosure, and vintage Illinois zoo home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other 1972 Lincoln Park or Illinois zoo footage, then broader vintage bear or zoo animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm frame from Lincoln Park, Illinois showing a small brown bear near water and stone enclosure walls. — A brown bear rests or moves low near the waterline in a stone zoo enclosure.

Brown bear in a Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, walking beside pale artificial rock walls in 1972 home-movie footage. — The bear walks along the ledge with stone enclosure walls behind it.

1972 Lincoln Park zoo frame showing a brown bear paused on a ledge, its body broadside and head turned toward the camera. — The bear pauses on the enclosure ledge and turns its head toward the camera.

Brown bear in a 1972 Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, standing on a pale ledge with rock-textured walls behind it. — The bear stands on the ledge near the artificial rock wall of the enclosure.

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