Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Bear Eating Fish From Persons Hand Through A Blue

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

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Bear Eating Fish From Persons Hand Through A Blue — Clip Details

CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS-1958: A dark bear is seen behind purple metal bars in a zoo enclosure, its silhouette visible against a stone wall. A person's hand reaches through the bars, offering a piece of fish to the animal. The bear takes the food, its mouth opening to eat. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment of interaction between human and animal, with the distinctive blue tint and grain of mid-century amateur 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: 125880910

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archive requests needing zoo, animal feeding, visitor interaction, or mid-century leisure cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The purple-blue metal bars, stone enclosure wall, and 8mm color cast may show a mid-century zoo setting recorded during a 1958 Kansas home-movie trip.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal visitor-shot moment as a person reaches through enclosure bars to feed a bear by hand.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark bear, blue-purple metal bars, a stone wall, an open dark recess, a pale piece of fish, and a person's hand near the enclosure.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, strong blue-purple color shift, low-shadow detail, and slight handheld framing that identify it as amateur physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, zoo-visit memory beat, or transition within a sequence about mid-century leisure or human-animal encounters.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual zoo-feeding interaction that appears more informal than many contemporary animal enclosure practices.
Research note: People are partially visible through a hand only, but likeness, animal welfare context, location identification, and copyright status should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Kansas 8mm zoo footage, bear eating fish through bars, vintage home movie animal feeding, and mid-century zoo enclosure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas material, then broader vintage zoo or animal-feeding footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark bear stands behind blue-purple zoo bars against a stone wall in 1958 Kansas 8mm home-movie footage. — Bear silhouette behind painted metal bars with a stone enclosure wall behind it.

The bear remains behind painted metal bars beside a dark recess in the stone zoo enclosure. — Bear moves along the barred enclosure near a shadowed opening in the stone wall.

A person's hand reaches through the blue-purple bars to offer food to the bear in the 1958 zoo footage. — A hand extends food through the bars as the bear approaches from the enclosure side.

Bear profile remains behind the enclosure bars with the stone wall filling the background.

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