Colorado USA-1959: Brown Bear Walks in Zoo Enclosure

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Brown Bear Walks in Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a large brown bear walking across concrete steps in a zoo enclosure. The bear moves past weathered logs, sniffing and investigating the ground as it searches for food. The footage shows the animal's natural behavior in a man-made habitat, with a stone wall in the background and a distinct purple color cast typical of aged film. The grainy texture and soft focus add to the nostalgic, archival quality of this classic wildlife footage.

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: 124936813

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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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: Colorado, 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 1950s editorial sequences needing visitor-shot zoo wildlife footage from Colorado home movies.
Period detail: The concrete steps, stone enclosure wall, and aged color 8mm look may show a mid-century zoo habitat filmed by a visitor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, watching a bear slowly investigate its enclosure rather than performing for camera.
What appears in frame: A large brown bear, concrete steps, heavy weathered logs, a stone wall, open enclosure ground, and strong black film-frame borders are visible.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and a cool purple color shift consistent with aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, zoo insert, transition beat, or archival memory detail in a Colorado or 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows a large bear in a man-made zoo setting, reflecting a visitor's view of captive wildlife without identifying the institution.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and any zoo property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1959 Colorado zoo bear footage, 8mm home movie wildlife, brown bear in enclosure, or vintage captive animal film may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1959 material, then broader zoo, bear, wildlife, or mid-century home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a large brown bear walking through a zoo enclosure with concrete steps and logs. — A brown bear walks across the stepped concrete floor of a zoo enclosure.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame of a brown bear lowering its head near a large log inside a stone-walled zoo enclosure. — The bear lowers its head beside a large weathered log in the enclosure.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing the bear partly obscured by a large pale log in a zoo enclosure. — A large log partly hides the bear as it moves along the stepped enclosure floor.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame with the bear mostly behind a large log, filmed from a visitor viewpoint in a zoo enclosure. — The bear continues behind the log while the stone wall and steps frame the enclosure.

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