Yellowstone Wyoming-1967: Big Black Bear Crosses Road Near Classic Car

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationYellowstone, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Yellowstone Wyoming

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Big Black Bear Crosses Road Near Classic Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a large black bear crossing a road in Yellowstone National Park. A classic American sedan is parked nearby as the bear moves through the forested area. The footage shows the bear approaching the vehicle, then walking away into the trees. The scene is illuminated by natural daylight, with the film exhibiting characteristic grain and color shifts typical of 1960s home movies. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife interaction in a natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125883703

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: 1967 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: Yellowstone, Wyoming, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s wildlife, road-trip, and national park sequences needing visitor-shot footage of a black bear near a mid-century car.
Period detail: The rounded sedan, faded color, and 8mm home-movie texture support a late-1960s travel-film setting, with Yellowstone and 1967 supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged roadside visitor encounter, observing the bear from near or inside a vehicle rather than from a controlled wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, a pale classic sedan, a narrow road, dense evergreen forest, roadside brush, and dark shaded woodland.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, blue-magenta color shift, handheld framing, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between national park road scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a mid-century park-road encounter where a visitor vehicle and wild bear share the same roadside space.
Research note: People are flagged as visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, wildlife, location, and property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1967 Yellowstone 8mm bear footage, black bear near classic car, vintage national park road trip, and home movie wildlife encounter.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1967 Yellowstone or Wyoming travel footage, then broader vintage national park wildlife and roadside animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A black bear stands near the rear side of a pale classic sedan on a forested Yellowstone road in 1967 home-movie footage. — Black bear close to a parked or slow-moving sedan at the edge of a wooded road.

The bear remains close to the pale sedan as the shaded forest background fills most of the 1967 Yellowstone frame. — Bear passing near the back half of the car in deep roadside shade.

A pale classic sedan is seen farther down a forest road, with the bear no longer clearly visible in this Yellowstone travel shot. — The car recedes along a tree-lined road after the bear encounter.

The pale sedan is farther up the wooded road while a dark bear form appears near the lower roadside in the 1967 Yellowstone footage. — Wide view of the forest road with the car ahead and the bear near the roadside.

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