Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Bears and Dall Sheep 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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Bears and Dall Sheep in Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

LINCOLN PARK ILLINOIS USA-1972: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a rocky zoo enclosure with several brown bears walking and resting on stone steps. The scene transitions to a white sign identifying the Dall Sheep exhibit in Yukon, Alaska, followed by a herd of white Dall sheep on a rocky hillside. Shot on 8mm film, the clip features natural lighting, film grain, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering authentic wildlife and zoo experience footage from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124349164

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: Useful for 1970s editorial sequences needing visitor-shot zoo wildlife footage, especially bears and Dall sheep in rocky exhibit settings.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, exhibit signage, and zoo enclosure design support an early 1970s home-movie context in Lincoln Park, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged visitor perspective, moving from animals in enclosures to an identifying exhibit sign and back to the herd.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown bears, stepped artificial rock, a Dall Sheep sign, grass, white sheep, shaded trees, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld composition that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a zoo visit insert, animal cutaway, exhibit-identification transition, or brief family-memory beat.
Historical context: The frames show zoo animals presented in rocky constructed habitats, reflecting public wildlife display practices visible in the 1972 home-movie record.
Research note: No people are visible, but the exhibit sign and zoo setting should be reviewed for property, trademark, and location-context issues separate from copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s 8mm zoo footage, Lincoln Park zoo animals, brown bears in enclosure, Dall sheep exhibit, and vintage home movie wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo footage, then Lincoln Park or Illinois material from 1972, then broader vintage zoo and animal exhibit scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Lincoln Park zoo footage showing several brown bears among artificial rock ledges in a sunlit enclosure. — Brown bears move and rest among stepped rocks in the zoo enclosure.

Brown bears appear on pale rock platforms in a Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, filmed from a visitor viewpoint in 1972. — Several bears cross the rocky exhibit area under bright light.

A zoo exhibit sign reads Dall Sheep with Yukon Alaska below, standing in grass beside a paved area. — The camera briefly frames the Dall Sheep exhibit sign.

A herd of white Dall sheep stands on artificial rocky slopes in the zoo enclosure, with trees and shade behind them. — Dall sheep gather on the rocky slope of their exhibit.

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