Colby Wisconsin USA-1972: Black Bear Walking and Lions Lounging in Zoo Enclosure

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationColby, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Black Bear Walking and Lions Lounging in Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a black bear walking through a zoo enclosure with stone structures and logs. The scene transitions to a male lion and two lionesses lounging on rock ledges in a separate habitat. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a purple tint and film grain, offering authentic archival footage of zoo animals from the early 1970s.

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: 124349337

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: 1972 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: Colby, Wisconsin, 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm zoo animal footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing archival bear and lion enclosure views.
Period detail: The visible stone habitats, log props, soft 8mm color, and metadata-supported 1972 Colby, Wisconsin setting place the footage in an early-1970s zoo visit context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, observing animals from outside enclosures without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear on stone paving, a log in the bear habitat, rock-like enclosure walls, a male lion, two lionesses, ledges, and heavy film borders.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft focus, exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief zoo cutaway, animal behavior insert, transition between family-trip scenes, or memory beat for early-1970s leisure footage.
Historical context: The clip visually documents zoo animal display environments and visitor home-movie recording habits without supporting broader claims about the facility or animal care practices.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any zoo or property-use considerations before publication.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1972 8mm zoo animals, vintage black bear enclosure, home movie lions lounging, and Colby Wisconsin zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Colby, Wisconsin footage, then broader vintage zoo and captive wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A black bear walks through a stone zoo enclosure in metadata-supported 1972 Colby, Wisconsin 8mm footage. — Black bear moving across paved enclosure floor with log habitat elements behind it.

A black bear crosses a stone ledge within a zoo habitat, seen in soft, purple-tinted 8mm home-movie footage. — Bear walking near the edge of a stone habitat structure.

A male lion and two lionesses lounge on layered rock ledges in the metadata-supported Colby, Wisconsin zoo footage from 1972. — Lions resting across stone ledges inside a rock-walled enclosure.

The lion group remains spread across rock ledges in a zoo enclosure, captured with soft focus and visible 8mm frame borders. — Male lion and lionesses at rest against a rock-textured enclosure wall.

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