Cheyenne Wyoming-1961: Brown Bear Looks At Camera While Eating On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Cheyenne Wyoming

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Brown Bear Looks At Camera While Eating On A Bright... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a brown bear in a natural setting, viewed through a vehicle window. The bear stands on a snowy slope with green shrubs, looking toward the camera while appearing to eat. The footage shows the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film, with a dark green vehicle frame visible at the bottom. The bear shifts slightly, turning its head as it moves through the snowy landscape. The final frame shows a dark, blurry view, suggesting the camera moved or the bear walked away. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125291528

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: 1961 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: Cheyenne, Wyoming, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1961 8mm wildlife footage from Cheyenne, Wyoming, suited to documentary inserts about roadside animal encounters, winter landscapes, or midcentury home-movie travel.
Period detail: The vehicle-window framing, soft 8mm color, and snowy outdoor setting may show a midcentury visitor filming wildlife from inside or beside a car.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, with the camera held close to a vehicle window as the bear turns and appears to eat nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, snowy ground, green shrubs, a dark vehicle window edge, bright daylight, and soft 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, muted green-blue color shift, bright snow exposure, and slight handheld softness typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition from roadside observation to winter nature material.
Historical context: The scene reflects a home-movie encounter with wildlife in 1961 Wyoming, seen from a cautious vehicle-side vantage rather than a formal nature-film setup.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but wildlife setting, copyright status, and location claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm bear footage, Cheyenne Wyoming wildlife home movie, brown bear in snow, and vintage roadside animal film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1961 Cheyenne or Wyoming travel material, then with broader vintage wildlife and winter-roadside clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Brown bear in a snowy Cheyenne, Wyoming setting in 1961, filmed through a vehicle window on soft 8mm home-movie stock. — A brown bear stands near snow and low shrubs while viewed through a vehicle window.

The bear turns slightly on a bright snowy slope, with shrubs behind it and a dark vehicle frame at the edge of the 8mm view. — The bear shifts its head while standing near snow and brush.

A closer profile view of the bear appears within the vehicle-window framing.

The final visible frame shows the bear partly turned in the snowy Wyoming setting, with the vehicle window and 8mm softness still prominent. — The bear remains near the snow and shrubs as the camera view softens slightly.

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