Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Hand Feeding Bear a Berry Through Fence

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationCheyenne, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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Hand Feeding Bear a Berry Through Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a brown bear in a chain-link enclosure at what appears to be a zoo or wildlife facility in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The bear moves restlessly behind the fence as a hand reaches through, offering a berry. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel. The bear’s dark fur contrasts with the bright, sunlit background, emphasizing the interaction between human and animal in a mid-century setting.

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: 125880844

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: 1958 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, Kansas, 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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing home-movie footage of a bear in a zoo-like chain-link enclosure with a visitor feeding interaction.
Period detail: The 8mm color, handheld framing, chain-link animal enclosure, and casual visitor hand may show a mid-century wildlife facility or roadside zoo setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries unstaged home-movie value through the close visitor perspective as a hand offers food through the fence while the bear shifts nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark-furred bear, chain-link fencing, metal posts and rails, paved ground, sunlit enclosure areas, and a visitor hand with a berry.
Film character: The footage has strong 8mm grain, cool color shift, uneven exposure, soft focus, and slight handheld movement that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for mid-century animal attractions, zoo visits, or human-animal contact in home movies.
Historical context: The scene suggests casual visitor access to a caged bear at a wildlife or zoo facility, with the camera focused on the feeding gesture rather than the wider site.
Research note: A human hand is visible and the facility is unidentified, so likeness, location, and property context should be reviewed separately from any copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm bear in cage, Kansas home movie zoo footage, vintage wildlife enclosure, and visitor feeding bear archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cheyenne County Kansas 1958 material, then similar vintage zoo or caged animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark-furred bear stands behind chain-link fencing in what appears to be a 1958 Kansas wildlife or zoo enclosure. — Bear partly obscured by chain-link fence and metal posts.

The bear moves behind chain-link fencing, with metal enclosure posts crossing the handheld 8mm frame. — Bear moving close to the fenced enclosure structure.

A visitor hand appears at the lower left as the bear stays behind the chain-link fence in the Kansas home-movie footage. — Visitor hand near the fence as the bear remains inside the enclosure.

The bear is close to the chain-link fence, its mouth visible in the shadowed right side of the 8mm frame. — Bear close to the fence near the end of the short shot.

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