Pennsylvania USA-1958: Brown Primate in Tree Leaping Between Branches

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationPennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Pennsylvania

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Brown Primate in Tree Leaping Between Branches — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pennsylvania USA in 1958 captures a primate with brown fur perched in a tree. The animal, likely a monkey or similar small primate, is seen sitting on a branch amidst dense green foliage and leafy trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and visible grain. The primate moves slightly, shifting its position before leaping or swinging to another branch, showcasing natural wildlife behavior in a wooded setting. The shot is framed with dark borders typical of old film reels.

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: 120922205

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$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: 1958 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: Pennsylvania, 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: This 1958 Pennsylvania 8mm home-movie clip can support archival requests for midcentury amateur footage of a small primate or monkey-like animal in dense woodland foliage.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the soft 8mm color film texture and home-movie framing, while the wooded setting itself has few date-specific clues beyond the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of an unstaged home-movie moment, with the camera following a small animal partially hidden among branches and leaves.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense green foliage, pale twisting tree limbs, a small brown-furred primate-like animal, dark film borders, soft focus, and a wooded background.
Film character: The footage shows physical 8mm character through visible grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, slight blur, and dark frame edges from the scanned reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, a nature-memory insert, or a transition within a sequence about home movies, animals, or wooded Pennsylvania settings.
Historical context: The clip reflects a midcentury amateur record of an animal encounter in a leafy outdoor setting without enough visual evidence to identify a zoo, park, private property, or wild habitat.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private-property markers are visible, but animal identification, location specificity, copyright status, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches might include 1958 Pennsylvania 8mm monkey in tree, vintage home movie primate foliage, small brown animal in woods, and midcentury amateur wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Pennsylvania outdoor footage, and then with broader midcentury home-movie clips of animals, woods, and foliage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Pennsylvania 8mm footage, a small brown-furred primate-like animal sits partly obscured in a tree amid dense green foliage and pale limbs. — Small primate-like animal in a leafy tree.

The animal remains partly visible among branches and thick foliage in this 1958 Pennsylvania home-movie frame, with soft 8mm focus and dark reel edges. — Animal partly hidden among branches.

A blurred 8mm frame shows the small primate-like animal moving or shifting behind pale branches and green foliage in the wooded Pennsylvania setting. — Motion-blurred animal behind foliage.

The final frame shows dense green leaves, tree trunks, and dark film borders, with the animal no longer clearly visible in the 1958 Pennsylvania wooded scene. — Foliage after the animal moves from view.

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