Wyoming-1951: Black Bear near Geothermal Feature

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Wyoming

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Black Bear near Geothermal Feature — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a rare moment of a black bear near a winding road in a dense pine forest. The footage, likely filmed from a moving vehicle, shows the bear on the grassy roadside as the road curves through the wilderness. The final frame shifts to a steaming geothermal feature, suggesting a Yellowstone National Park setting. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 characteristics, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife and natural wonders from mid-century America.

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: 127665541

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: 1951 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Wyoming 8mm home-movie footage for requests needing roadside wildlife, forest travel, or geothermal landscape inserts in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century auto-tour travel through a forest road, with soft color 8mm imagery and no visible modern signage, vehicles, people, or brands in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot roadside viewpoint, apparently filmed from a car as attention shifts from a distant bear near the trees to a steaming natural feature.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving paved road, grassy shoulder, dense conifer forest, a small dark bear-like animal, roadside brush, film gate edges, and steam rising from pale ground.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with rounded frame corners, gate borders, visible grain, slight color fade, exposure variation, and handheld or vehicle-motion softness.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife travel insert, a Yellowstone-area transition, a road-trip memory beat, or a cutaway between forest and geothermal scenes.
Historical context: The frames reflect postwar-era park or wilderness sightseeing from a personal camera perspective, while the exact road and geothermal feature are not identifiable from the stills alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and wildlife or park-use context should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1951 Wyoming 8mm bear roadside footage, vintage forest road home movie, and mid-century geothermal steam travel scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming or Yellowstone-area 1951 material, then with broader 1950s wildlife, road travel, and geothermal nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a winding forest road and a small dark bear-like animal near the roadside grass. — A small dark animal stands near the grassy shoulder as the road curves through dense trees.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame of a forest road with a distant bear-like shape beside the grassy edge. — The dark animal remains near the roadside as the forest road bends out of view.

Vintage 8mm Wyoming road scene with a bear-like animal partly separated from the dense forest edge. — A distant bear-like figure is visible near the roadside vegetation along the forest road.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing steam or vapor rising from pale ground, consistent with a geothermal feature. — Steam or vapor fills the frame above pale ground, suggesting a nearby geothermal feature.

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