Saint Louis Missouri-1964: A Bear Roams Rocky Edges, Sits and Stares

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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A Bear Roams Rocky Edges, Sits and Stares — Clip Details

A brown bear with thick fur roams through a rocky enclosure at night, its movements captured on vintage 8mm film. The bear walks along stone ledges, pauses to sit, and then turns to stare into the darkness. Shot in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1964, this archival footage features the characteristic grain and soft focus of home movie film, with deep shadows and high contrast lighting. The scene evokes a sense of quiet observation and nostalgic wildlife viewing from the mid-20th century.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127732461

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 1616 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1961-1964
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 archival edits needing zoo or captive wildlife footage with a nocturnal, visitor-shot home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The 8mm look, hard contrast, and supplied 1964 Saint Louis metadata place the scene in a mid-1960s amateur filming context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a quiet visitor observation of a bear moving through an enclosure rather than a staged wildlife presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, stone ledges, rough rock walls, deep shadow, bright enclosure lighting, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark 8mm frame borders that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition into themes of zoos, animal observation, or nighttime leisure filming.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century public wildlife viewing through an amateur camera, with the animal seen inside a constructed rocky habitat.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal-location use, copyright status, and any property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 Saint Louis 8mm zoo bear footage, brown bear in rocky enclosure, and vintage home movie wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo material, then Saint Louis 1964 footage, then broader 1960s home-movie animal or leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Brown bear moves along stone ledges in a rocky enclosure, from 1964 Saint Louis home-movie footage. — A bear walks through a lit rocky enclosure with dark shadows around the frame.

A brown bear stands closer to the camera within a rocky Saint Louis enclosure in 1964 8mm footage. — The bear approaches the foreground as stone ledges and shadows fill the enclosure.

The bear appears low in frame near the front edge of a rocky enclosure in 1964 Saint Louis footage. — A bear pauses near the camera side of the enclosure beneath bright, uneven light.

A brown bear sits upright against a rocky enclosure backdrop in 1964 Saint Louis home-movie footage. — The bear sits upright while the rocky habitat recedes into darkness behind it.

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