New York City-1971: Bear In Captivity Throws Object In Water

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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 In Captivity Throws Object In Water — Clip Details

A 1971 8mm home movie captures a bear in a zoo enclosure, standing in shallow water and interacting with a white object. The bear picks up the object, lifts it high, and throws it forcefully, creating a splash. The footage shows the bear's playful or agitated behavior in captivity, with a concrete wall and bare trees in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the nostalgic, archival feel of this vintage New York City zoo 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: 125581932

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: Useful for 1970s New York City zoo or animal-captivity editorial sequences needing brief 8mm footage of a bear interacting with an object in an enclosure.
Period detail: The concrete enclosure, bare trees, visitor viewpoint and color 8mm look support the supplied 1971 New York City zoo context without identifying a specific facility.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a visitor filming an unexpected animal action from behind a viewing area rather than a staged wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bear in shallow water, a white object, a concrete wall, enclosure openings, bare trees, strong sunlight and partial visitor silhouettes at the frame edge.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, faded color, uneven exposure and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture from the early 1970s.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, behavioral insert, zoo-memory beat or transition within a sequence about urban leisure, animal display or captivity.
Historical context: The footage shows a captive bear within a stark concrete zoo environment, offering visual context for how animal enclosures could appear in visitor-shot home movies of the period.
Research note: Copyright status, zoo location, animal-welfare interpretation and any visible visitor likenesses should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 New York City 8mm zoo footage, bear in captivity, vintage home movie animal behavior and bear throwing object in water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 New York City zoo material, then broader 1970s urban zoo or captive-animal home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York City 8mm zoo footage showing a bear in shallow water beside a concrete enclosure wall and white object. — A bear stands low in the water near a white object inside a concrete zoo enclosure.

A captive bear in the New York City zoo footage appears upright, holding a pale object against the concrete enclosure wall. — The bear lifts the object high while standing near the back wall of the enclosure.

1971 visitor-shot 8mm footage shows the bear crouched in shallow water, holding the pale object inside the concrete enclosure. — The bear gathers the object close while seated or crouched in the water.

The bear appears to fling or raise the pale object, creating a splash in the 1971 New York City zoo enclosure footage. — A splash rises as the bear forcefully moves the object near the concrete wall.

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