Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: The Bear Walks To The Other Side Of The Cave

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

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The Bear Walks To The Other Side Of The Cave — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a bear moving slowly within a stone-walled enclosure at a zoo in Cheyenne County, Kansas. Viewed through vertical metal bars, the bear walks from left to right across the dimly lit habitat, its dark silhouette contrasting against the rough-hewn stone wall. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century Americana feel. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted wildlife footage ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125880935

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: Useful for 1950s home-movie requests needing brief zoo animal footage, a wildlife cutaway, or a mid-century Americana insert from 8mm film.
Period detail: The rough stone enclosure, vertical metal bars, muted color, and 8mm texture may show a mid-century zoo viewing area consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, watching a bear through bars without staging, narration, or close access to the animal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark bear, vertical metal bars, rough stone walls, a pale rock ledge, dim enclosure shadows, and uneven home-movie framing.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, greenish muted color, soft focus, dark exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short zoo cutaway, animal-behavior insert, transition into a memory sequence, or visual beat about leisure and captivity.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor view of a bear in a barred stone habitat, offering visual context for mid-century zoo-going without making claims about the specific facility.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any zoo property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1958 Kansas zoo bear 8mm, vintage bear enclosure footage, mid-century zoo home movie, and barred animal habitat film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas material, then similar vintage zoo, animal enclosure, or bear footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A bear stands or moves in shadow behind vertical metal bars inside a stone zoo enclosure, consistent with the 1958 Kansas clip metadata. — Bear seen through bars against a rough stone enclosure wall.

The bear appears in shadow near a pale stone ledge, viewed through vertical bars in the zoo enclosure described by the clip metadata. — Bear moves near a light stone ledge inside the barred habitat.

A dark bear lowers its head near a pale stone ledge while vertical bars and rough masonry fill the foreground and background. — Bear lowers its head by the stone ledge behind enclosure bars.

The bear is partly hidden by enclosure bars and shadow beside a bright section of rough stone wall, ending the short zoo view. — Bear partly obscured by bars beside the bright stone wall.

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