Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Bear Standing In The Night Then Lying By The

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

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Bear Standing In The Night Then Lying By The — Clip Details

CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS-1958: A grainy, green-tinted 8mm home movie captures a bear in a dimly lit enclosure. The first frames show the bear's silhouette behind vertical bars, standing against a stone wall in near darkness. The scene transitions to a blurry, close-up view of the bear lying down on grassy ground, its head resting, with a soft focus and heavy film grain characteristic of vintage Super 8 footage. The overall mood is mysterious and nostalgic, evoking a sense of quiet observation at a mid-century zoo.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125880945

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$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 archive requests needing brief zoo or captive wildlife cutaways from amateur 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The grainy 8mm color, soft focus, and simple barred enclosure may show a mid-century visitor view of a bear exhibit in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, watching the bear quietly through bars and then from a closer ground-level angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bear, vertical enclosure bars, a stone wall, grass or straw-covered ground, deep shadow, soft green color, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, green-tinted color, dim exposure, soft focus, and a brief contact-sheet rhythm consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short animal cutaway, zoo insert, transition into memory material, or quiet observational beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects a mid-century home-movie encounter with a captive bear, emphasizing the viewing conditions rather than making claims about the facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any zoo or property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Kansas 8mm bear footage, vintage zoo animal home movie, captive wildlife behind bars, and grainy Super 8 animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Cheyenne County Kansas 1958 material, then with vintage zoo or captive wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas 8mm footage, a bear appears as a dark silhouette behind enclosure bars near a stone wall. — Bear partly hidden in shadow behind vertical bars and stonework.

A soft-focus 1958 Kansas home-movie frame shows the bear lying on grass or straw-covered ground in green-tinted light. — Soft-focus view of the bear lying down on the ground.

The bear lies low on the ground in a blurry 8mm frame, its head turned right and body softened by grain and motion. — Bear resting on the ground in a heavily softened frame.

A darker 1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame shows the bear still lying down, softened by low exposure, grain, and green color shift. — Bear remains lying down as the image darkens and softens.

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