Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Brown Bear Catches Food From Caretaker

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

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Brown Bear Catches Food From Caretaker — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a brown bear in a zoo enclosure in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The bear is seen behind a chain-link fence, its dark fur contrasting with the dim, blue-tinted lighting. The animal moves within its confined space, occasionally reaching toward the fence as it interacts with a caretaker just out of frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This raw, unedited clip offers a candid glimpse into mid-century zoo life and animal care.

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: 125880859

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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm zoo footage for documentary or educational edits needing a brief animal-care cutaway from a Midwestern home-movie source.
Period detail: The chain-link enclosure, concrete floor, and close handheld framing may show a mid-century zoo viewing area consistent with the supplied 1958 Kansas metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, watching a bear respond to food or a caretaker just outside the frame rather than presenting a staged wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark bear, chain-link fencing, vertical posts, concrete ground, enclosure shadows, and brief reaching or feeding movement.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, blue color shift, soft focus, low exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about zoos, roadside travel, animal care, or 1950s family filming.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for how a zoo animal was viewed through fencing, without enough detail to identify the facility or caretaker.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location, and animal-facility context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm zoo bear, Kansas home movie animal enclosure, brown bear behind chain-link fence, and mid-century zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas material, then related zoo, animal-care, and home-movie travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark brown bear appears behind chain-link fencing in a Kansas zoo enclosure, based on the supplied 1958 clip metadata. — Bear partly hidden behind fence and enclosure posts.

The bear is mostly obscured at the edge of the frame while chain-link fencing and the concrete zoo enclosure remain visible. — Fence and enclosure dominate as the bear moves in shadow.

A dark brown bear faces the camera behind the chain-link fence, its mouth area catching light in the dim 1958 zoo footage. — Bear faces forward from behind the fence.

The bear appears close to the fence, possibly reaching toward food or a caretaker just outside the frame, in the supplied Kansas zoo clip. — Bear moves close to the fence near the end of the clip.

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