Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Bear Moving Around In The Cage To Show Its Beauty

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

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Bear Moving Around In The Cage To Show Its Beauty — Clip Details

A young bear moves restlessly behind a chain-link fence in this 8mm home movie from Cheyenne County, Kansas, 1958. The grainy, blue-tinted footage captures the animal's dark fur and shifting posture through the diamond-patterned mesh. The dim, atmospheric lighting and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a candid glimpse of a zoo or wildlife enclosure from the late 1950s.

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: 125880865

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

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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: Useful for 1950s documentary or educational edits needing brief 8mm footage of a bear in a small animal enclosure.
Period detail: The chain-link barrier, dark enclosure, and 8mm color stock support a mid-century home-movie view, with the 1958 Kansas setting supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, observing the bear through fencing without staged action or direct human interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark bear, chain-link mesh, vertical posts or tree trunks, enclosure shadows, pale structural edges, and blue-tinted film grain.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, blue-purple color cast, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of scanned amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short animal cutaway, zoo enclosure insert, memory beat, or textured transition in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The frames show a captive bear viewed through fencing, offering visual context for how wildlife or zoo animals may have been filmed by visitors in the 1950s.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signage are visible, but copyright, animal facility context, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Kansas 8mm bear footage, vintage zoo enclosure, chain-link animal cage, and mid-century home movie wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cheyenne County Kansas 1958 material, then related vintage zoo or captive wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark bear is partly visible behind chain-link fencing in 1958 Kansas home-movie footage, with posts and shadows in the enclosure. — Bear partly obscured by chain-link fencing in a shaded enclosure.

The bear remains mostly in shadow behind the diamond-pattern fence, with pale vertical posts or trunks visible in the enclosure. — Bear seen through the fence as pale posts divide the dark enclosure.

Foreground chain-link mesh dominates the frame while the bear appears low and dark inside the enclosure, consistent with the 1958 Kansas clip metadata. — Foreground fencing obscures the bear inside the dim enclosure.

The bear is visible behind blue-tinted chain-link fencing near pale supports, with its dark fur broken by patches of light and shadow. — Bear shifts behind the fence near pale enclosure supports.

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