Wisconsin USA-1954: Zoo Giraffes At Night

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Zoo Giraffes At Night — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1954 in Wisconsin, USA, showing a giraffe in a zoo enclosure at night. The giraffe stands near a fence, its long neck bent down as it grazes on the ground. The scene is illuminated by artificial light, casting a purple hue over the dark environment. A second giraffe is briefly visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, capturing a nostalgic moment of wildlife in captivity. The setting includes stone structures and fencing typical of mid-century zoo design. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted footage of zoo animals in a historical context.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120766111

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 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: Wisconsin, 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: 1950s Wisconsin 8mm zoo footage suited for documentary or educational sequences about mid-century animal captivity, family travel, or nocturnal zoo displays.
Period detail: The fenced enclosure, artificial night lighting, stone habitat structures, and 8mm color rendering may show mid-century zoo presentation and visitor filming conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing giraffes from outside the enclosure without staging or direct interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include one or more giraffes, a low fence rail, dark enclosure walls, stone habitat forms, patches of ground, and strong purple-blue artificial light.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color shift, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, insert, or memory beat within a sequence on zoos, family vacations, animal exhibits, or 1950s leisure travel.
Historical context: The scene visually situates giraffes within a zoo enclosure at night, offering cautious context for historical animal display without identifying the institution from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any zoo property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1950s Wisconsin 8mm zoo giraffes, vintage home movie zoo enclosure at night, and mid-century animal captivity footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo or travel shots, then with Wisconsin 1954 material, and then with broader vintage zoo animal or captive wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a giraffe bending toward the ground beside a low fence in a dimly lit zoo enclosure. — Giraffe grazing near the enclosure fence at night.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame with a giraffe at right bending near the fence and another giraffe standing deeper inside the dark zoo enclosure. — Two giraffes visible under artificial night lighting.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a giraffe lowering its neck beside the fence while another giraffe is partly visible in the shadowed enclosure. — Giraffes seen through dim zoo lighting.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a giraffe bending near a fence with stone habitat structures and shadowed ground inside the zoo enclosure. — Giraffe near stone habitat forms in the enclosure.

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