Saint Louis Missouri-1964: Bear Roaring Inside His Cage

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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Bear Roaring Inside His Cage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a bear inside its rocky enclosure at the Saint Louis Zoo. The bear, a large brown animal, is seen sitting and moving slowly within the dimly lit habitat, surrounded by artificial rock formations. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural film artifacts, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century zoo life. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the bear's movements and the textured stone environment.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127732479

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: This clip helps document 1960s visitor-shot zoo footage for editorial uses needing a brief animal enclosure cutaway from Saint Louis, Missouri.
Period detail: The visible artificial rock habitat, soft color 8mm texture, and static visitor framing support a mid-1960s home-movie view of a zoo bear enclosure.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries the unstaged perspective of a zoo visitor holding on a bear as it sits, shifts, and appears to vocalize inside its rocky exhibit.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown bear, artificial rock formations, a dark enclosure recess, stone ledges, shadowed foreground areas, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip shows dense 8mm grain, warm color bias, soft focus, heavy contrast, and slight gate or contact-sheet edge artifacts that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal-behavior cutaway, zoo-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about mid-century leisure or captive wildlife display.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for a 1960s zoo visit and the era's constructed animal habitats without making claims about exhibit design beyond what is visible.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal footage, location identification, copyright status, and any property or institutional permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1964 Saint Louis Zoo bear home movie, 8mm zoo animal enclosure footage, 1960s bear in rocky habitat, and vintage visitor-shot wildlife film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Saint Louis or 1964 zoo footage, and finally with broader 1960s home-movie animal or family-outing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A brown bear sits near the center of a rocky zoo enclosure in 1964 Saint Louis home-movie footage, with artificial stone ledges and a dark recessed background. — Bear seated among artificial rockwork.

The bear remains seated inside the rocky Saint Louis Zoo enclosure, framed by dark shadows, pale stone ledges, and the soft contrast of 8mm film. — Bear holds position in the enclosure.

A closer 8mm frame shows the bear near the lower edge of the rocky zoo habitat, with its face and shoulders visible against pale artificial stone. — Closer view of the bear by the rocks.

The final frame catches the bear partly low in the Saint Louis Zoo enclosure, with a bright rock ledge, dark rear wall, and strong 8mm contrast. — Bear partly framed below a rock ledge.

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