Russia-1963: Herd Of Bison Migrating Across Open Field

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationRussia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Russia

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Herd Of Bison Migrating Across Open Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a massive herd of bison moving across a vast, open field in Russia. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the animals in a long line, traversing a rural landscape with scattered hay bales. The camera remains steady, observing the natural migration of the wildlife. The image quality reflects the era’s home movie style, with visible film grain and soft focus. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse into mid-century wildlife and pastoral life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124874721

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: 1963 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: Russia 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm wildlife footage suited to editorial sequences needing a distant herd crossing open rural land in Russia.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century rural pastureland, with a long animal line, low horizon, hay or brush piles, and black-and-white 8mm home-movie texture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a fixed, distant position, giving the scene the observational value of an unstaged home-movie record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant bison herd, open field, low horizon, scattered pale hay or brush piles, soft focus, film borders, and exposure flicker.
Film character: The clip has coarse 8mm grain, soft telephoto-like detail, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, rural transition, migration insert, or brief memory beat within a historical nature sequence.
Historical context: The footage places large herd movement within an open rural landscape, but the frames do not identify a specific reserve, ranch, or migration route.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, though users should still review copyright status and any location or animal-management context.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm Russia bison herd, vintage home movie wildlife migration, and black-and-white rural animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Russia 1963 rural or wildlife shots, then broader archival herd, pasture, and migration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Russia 8mm frame showing a distant bison herd stretched across an open rural field with pale ground piles in the foreground. — A distant herd forms a dark line across the field beyond pale hay or brush piles.

1963 Russia 8mm frame with a distant bison line crossing flat pastureland, bordered by dark film edges and soft grain. — The herd continues as a long dark band across the open pasture.

1963 Russia 8mm frame showing the bison herd farther along the field, with visible grain, soft focus, and pale foreground piles. — Soft 8mm detail shows the herd moving behind uneven pale piles in the field.

1963 Russia 8mm frame with the distant herd spread across open land, seen through grain, dark frame edges, and uneven exposure. — The herd spreads across the distant field as the home-movie frame darkens at the edges.

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