Colorado USA-1959: Bear In Zoo Enclosure Walking Past Log

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Bear In Zoo Enclosure Walking Past Log — Clip Details

COLORADO USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a bear in a zoo enclosure, walking past a large fallen log on a concrete platform. The animal moves from left to right, its dark fur contrasting with the pale stone and the log's weathered texture. The scene is shot through a film frame with visible grain and a blueish tint, characteristic of 1950s home movie footage. The enclosure features a textured stone wall in the background, and the bear's natural behavior is observed in a quiet, observational style. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century wildlife viewing.

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: 124936815

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 Colorado home-movie requests needing a brief zoo or wildlife-viewing cutaway with an animal in an enclosure.
Period detail: The concrete platform, stone wall, and scanned 8mm color look may show mid-century zoo exhibit design without identifying a specific facility.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the bear's movement quietly rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark bear, a large pale fallen log, stepped concrete ledges, a textured stone wall, deep shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and gate edges that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short observational insert, animal cutaway, zoo-memory beat, or transition within a mid-century travel reel.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational wildlife viewing through a home-movie camera while avoiding claims about the zoo, animal species, or exhibit history.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, archive license terms, and any location-property questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Colorado 8mm zoo footage, bear in enclosure home movie, vintage wildlife viewing, and mid-century animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Colorado 1959 travel or zoo scenes, then broader vintage animal-enclosure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark bear near a pale fallen log against a stone wall in a zoo enclosure. — Bear moves near a large log on a concrete platform inside the enclosure.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame with a bear passing behind a large pale log in a concrete zoo enclosure. — The bear passes behind the fallen log, with the stone enclosure wall in the background.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing the bear walking along the left side of a fallen log in a zoo enclosure. — The bear walks across the platform beside the log and shadowed wall.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame showing the bear near the edge of the frame as the log remains centered in the enclosure. — The bear nears the side of the frame while the fallen log stays prominent on the platform.

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