New York City-1971: Bear Playing In Water At Zoo

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 New York City

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Bear Playing In Water At Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a bear playing in a shallow pool at a zoo, likely in New York City. The bear interacts with a dark object in the water, its movements captured with the characteristic grain and color shift of Super 8 film. A spectator's head is visible in the foreground, suggesting a personal, observational perspective. The scene evokes a nostalgic, candid moment of wildlife entertainment from the early 1970s.

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: 125581923

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 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
Date: 1971 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: New York City, New York, 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: 1971 8mm zoo footage suited to documentary or educational edits needing a brief visitor-view cutaway of a bear playing in water.
Period detail: The clip may show an early 1970s zoo enclosure with a concrete wall, shallow pool, snow or pale edging, and a spectator partly visible at the frame edge.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a visitor filming a bear from behind other onlookers as it paws at an object in the pool.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bear, shallow water, a dark object, concrete enclosure walls, pale pool edging, foreground hair, and intermittent spectator presence.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of home-movie zoo footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal-behavior cutaway, zoo visit transition, or memory beat within a 1970s urban family sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor-shot view of zoo animal display and casual spectatorship without identifying the zoo, enclosure, or individual visitors from the frames alone.
Research note: People are partially visible, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright and zoo-property permissions should be evaluated separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 8mm zoo bear in water, New York City home movie zoo animal, vintage bear enclosure footage, and 1970s visitor-shot wildlife clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo or family-visit shots, then other 1971 New York City material, then broader vintage zoo and animal-behavior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York City 8mm footage shows a bear in a shallow zoo pool beside a dark object, with a viewer's hair at the left edge. — A bear stands in the water near a dark object while a spectator is partly visible in front of the camera.

The bear leans toward a dark object in the water, framed by a concrete enclosure wall in 1971 New York City zoo footage. — The bear noses or paws at a dark object in the shallow pool.

A bear continues interacting with a dark object in a shallow pool, seen from a visitor perspective in 1971 New York City footage. — The bear keeps its head low over the object while standing in the water.

The bear holds or paws at a dark object near the pool edge while a spectator is partly visible at the lower right. — The bear remains in the shallow water near the ledge as a viewer enters the lower-right foreground.

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