Cincinnatti Ohio-1949: Brown Bear In Zoo Enclosure

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationCincinnatti, Ohio, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Brown Bear In Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1949, this vintage home movie captures a brown bear in a zoo enclosure in Cincinnati, Ohio. Viewed through vertical metal bars, the bear moves slowly across a rocky habitat with a cave-like den in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American zoo experience. The bear is seen walking, sniffing the ground, and eventually lying down, offering a candid glimpse into animal life in a mid-20th century zoo setting.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127602339

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: 1949 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: Cincinnatti, Ohio, 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 1940s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot 8mm footage of a bear inside an American zoo enclosure.
Period detail: The metal-bar viewing barrier, artificial rockwork, and muted 8mm color support a mid-century zoo setting in Cincinnati, Ohio, as described by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, observing the bear through enclosure bars with brief handheld framing rather than a formal wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, vertical metal bars, pale concrete ledges, artificial rock walls, a dark cave-like den, and a barred doorway.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, zoo-life insert, memory beat, or transition within material about mid-century leisure, animals, or public attractions.
Historical context: The view reflects a visitor encounter with a zoo animal in a barred and rock-lined enclosure, showing how animal display spaces appeared in this home-movie record.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any zoo or property permissions separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1949 8mm zoo bear footage, Cincinnati zoo home movie, brown bear enclosure, and mid-century American zoo cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Cincinnati 1949 material, and then with other zoo, animal, or home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A brown bear stands behind vertical metal bars in a rocky Cincinnati zoo enclosure, from 1949 8mm home-movie footage. — Brown bear seen through enclosure bars with artificial rockwork behind it.

The bear moves across the barred enclosure with artificial rockwork and a dark den opening visible in the background. — Bear walking inside the rocky enclosure behind vertical bars.

A brown bear passes near the dark den opening, partly blocked by foreground bars in the Cincinnati zoo enclosure. — Bear crossing the enclosure near the cave-like den entrance.

The bear appears to rest or crouch on the rocky surface behind bars, with a barred doorway and rock wall nearby. — Bear resting low in the enclosure near a barred doorway.

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