Wyoming-1939: Black Bear Walking Through Forest With Woman in Background

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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Black Bear Walking Through Forest With Woman in Background — Clip Details

A black bear walks along a forest path in this 1939 8mm home movie from Wyoming. The bear moves steadily through the wooded area, its dark fur contrasting with the dappled sunlight and autumnal ground cover. In later frames, a woman with blonde hair appears in the background, standing on the trail as the bear continues forward. The footage shows natural movement and a candid wildlife encounter, captured on vintage 8mm film with characteristic grain and color saturation. The scene evokes a sense of quiet wilderness and historical Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608955

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1939 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: 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Wyoming home-movie wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, archive research, museum interpretation, or period Americana sequences needing a bear encounter on a forest road.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1930s outdoor leisure or travel filming, with visible clues limited to 8mm color home-movie texture, a wooded dirt track, and a woman in dark clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot quality as the bear moves along the trail while the woman remains in the background, creating a candid wildlife encounter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bear, a dirt forest path, evergreen trees, leaf litter, dappled sunlight, dark vertical film borders, and a blonde woman in later frames.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated dark fur, fluctuating exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical-film character of the original home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, wilderness memory beat, or brief transition within stories about Wyoming travel, national parks, camping, or early color home movies.
Historical context: The clip visually places a bear encounter within a wooded recreational landscape, but it does not identify a specific park, landmark, or event beyond the supplied Wyoming 1939 metadata.
Research note: A visible adult woman may require likeness review, and users should separately assess copyright status, privacy, and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Searches such as 1939 Wyoming black bear 8mm, vintage home movie bear on forest road, woman behind bear, and 1930s wildlife travel footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wyoming 1939 travel footage, and then broader vintage wildlife, forest-road, camping, or national-park-themed material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Wyoming home-movie footage, a black bear walks toward the camera along a wooded dirt path. — A black bear moves along a forest road in dappled light.

A black bear walks on a forest track while a blonde woman stands in the background in the 1939 Wyoming home movie. — The bear continues down the trail with a woman visible behind it.

The bear appears near the foreground of a Wyoming forest path while a woman stands behind it in dark clothing. — The bear reaches the lower frame as the woman remains on the trail.

A black bear fills the lower foreground as a blonde woman stands on the wooded path in this 1939 Wyoming frame. — The bear is closest to camera with the woman still visible behind it.

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