Wyoming-1951: Bear In Meadow Near Stream

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Wyoming

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Bear In Meadow Near Stream — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a dark, indistinct animal—likely a bear—moving through a lush, green meadow in Wyoming. The scene unfolds from a fixed viewpoint, possibly through a window frame, with a winding stream and forested hills in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and muted colors, evoking a sense of quiet wilderness observation. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted nature footage from the early 1950s, perfect for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 127666783

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 wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts needing an archival view of a dark bear-like animal in a meadow near water.
Period detail: The frames show a soft, color 8mm home-movie view from 1951, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signs, or other date-specific details beyond the film record.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed, distant viewpoint suggests an unstaged observer quietly filming wildlife from behind a dark foreground obstruction or window-like frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark animal shape, green meadow grasses, reflective stream water, pale riverbank or hillside, forest edge, and dark vertical foreground bands.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight blur, and contact-sheet framing that give the wildlife view a distinctly physical 8mm texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, wilderness memory beat, or transitional insert for a 1950s Wyoming travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually places a bear-like animal in open wet meadow habitat near a stream, reflecting mid-century home-movie attention to roadside or park wildlife encounters.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but animal identification and any location-specific property or park permissions should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1951 Wyoming 8mm bear footage, vintage home movie wildlife near stream, and 1950s meadow animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1951 Wyoming footage, then broader 1950s wildlife, meadow, stream, and wilderness home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a distant dark bear-like animal in meadow grass near a winding stream and forested slope. — A dark animal moves through a meadow beside a stream, seen from a distant fixed viewpoint.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame with a bear-like dark animal partly obscured in a green meadow near a stream. — The animal appears low in the meadow while the stream curves through the background.

Vintage 1951 Wyoming home-movie frame showing a dark bear-like figure in lush meadow vegetation near reflective water. — The distant animal remains partly indistinct against the meadow vegetation.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame of a dark bear-like animal in meadow grass, with a stream and pale bank behind it. — A dark animal is visible near the lower meadow as the stream glints in the background.

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