New York City-1971: Bear Splashing in Water at Central Park 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 Splashing in Water at Central Park Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a playful bear at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. The bear stands on its hind legs, splashing water with its paws before turning to investigate and push a metal bucket with its snout. The footage shows the bear's natural curiosity and playful behavior in a rocky enclosure with a water feature, all rendered in the warm, slightly faded colors characteristic of Super 8 film. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a classic NYC zoo experience.

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: 125581940

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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1971 8mm clip supports editorial requests for New York City zoo, animal behavior, and family-visit era footage from the early 1970s.
Period detail: The rocky zoo enclosure, metal bucket, faded color, and 8mm home-movie framing may show a visitor-recorded Central Park Zoo animal habitat in 1971.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on a bear splashing, standing, and investigating a bucket rather than presenting a formal zoo film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bear, shallow water, splashes, rocky walls, a ledge, a metal bucket, dark enclosure shadows, and handheld 8mm framing.
Film character: The clip carries soft grain, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief animal-behavior cutaway, zoo memory beat, or transition within a New York City or 1970s family-outing sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a visitor view of a captive bear enclosure and reflects how urban zoo animals were filmed casually in home movies of the period.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, zoo property context, and animal-welfare interpretation should still be reviewed for use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Central Park Zoo bear, New York City zoo home movie, 8mm bear playing in water, and vintage zoo animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then 1971 New York City or Central Park Zoo material, then broader vintage zoo and captive animal behavior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A bear splashes its paws in water in a rocky Central Park Zoo enclosure, filmed in 1971 on 8mm home-movie stock. — Bear standing in shallow water as splashes rise around its front paws.

A bear lowers its head near the waterline and ledge of a Central Park Zoo enclosure in 1971 home-movie footage. — Bear investigating the edge of the water beside a sloped rock ledge.

A bear rises on its hind legs near a metal bucket inside the Central Park Zoo enclosure, captured from a visitor viewpoint in 1971. — Bear standing upright with a metal bucket visible near its front paws.

A bear leans toward a metal bucket on a rocky ledge in the Central Park Zoo enclosure, shown in grainy 1971 8mm footage. — Bear investigating a tipped metal bucket on the enclosure floor.

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