Cheyenne Wyoming-1961: A Wild Animal Moves At Night With Poor Visibility

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

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A Wild Animal Moves At Night With Poor Visibility — Clip Details

A grainy, green-tinted 8mm home movie from 1961 captures a mysterious, low-visibility night scene in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A large, indistinct animal figure moves slowly across a dark, grassy field, its form barely visible against the night. The footage exhibits heavy film grain, a distinct green color cast, and a static camera, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies. The low light and poor clarity create an eerie, suspenseful atmosphere, evoking a sense of forgotten Americana and archival mystery.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125291529

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

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: Supports 1960s documentary or mystery-history requests needing low-light home-movie footage of an indistinct nighttime animal or figure in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Period detail: The frames may show 1961 8mm home-movie exposure and color response, with few visible period clues beyond the physical film texture and metadata location.
Home-movie behavior: The static, distant viewpoint has the feel of an unstaged home-movie attempt to record something moving in darkness rather than a composed wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green-tinted dark field, horizontal boundary lines, a low indistinct moving shape, heavy grain, frame edges, and uneven exposure bands.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, green color cast, low-light underexposure, soft focus, and contact-print style frame divisions as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief eerie insert, transition beat, or archival memory cutaway for night, rural uncertainty, or unidentified animal movement.
Historical context: The footage suggests a domestic or amateur attempt to document nighttime outdoor activity, but the subject remains too indistinct for firm identification.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though the visible forms are indistinct; copyright and any location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1961 8mm night animal footage, Cheyenne Wyoming home movie, grainy green low-light field scene, or mysterious archival wildlife shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cheyenne or 1961 home movies, then broader low-light animal or mysterious rural night footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Cheyenne 8mm frame with heavy grain, green cast, and a dim outdoor field where the subject is not clearly defined. — A low-light green frame shows a dark field and faint boundary line with very limited visibility.

Green-tinted 1961 Cheyenne home-movie frame showing an indistinct low form near a horizontal field boundary at night. — An indistinct dark shape appears near a faint boundary line in the low-light field.

Low-visibility 8mm frame from Cheyenne metadata showing an unclear dark figure or animal-like form in a grainy night field. — A dark, low form is briefly more visible against the green field, but identification remains uncertain.

Final low-light 1961 Cheyenne frame with an indistinct dark form near a field line, softened by grain and exposure limits. — The dark shape remains indistinct near the boundary line as the green-tinted frame fades into grain.

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