New Jersey USA-1966: Sea Lions Swimming and Resting in Zoo Pool

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 New Jersey

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Sea Lions Swimming and Resting in Zoo Pool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1966 in New Jersey, USA, showing sea lions at a zoo enclosure. The clip captures two sea lions on a concrete pool edge and one swimming in green-tinted water, with a crowd of spectators visible behind a barrier in one shot. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, warm color grading, and noticeable film grain, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century animal exhibits.

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: 120941097

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1966 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: New Jersey, 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 1966 New Jersey 8mm zoo footage can support archival requests for mid-century animal exhibits, family travel context, or documentary cutaways of sea lions in captivity.
Period detail: The concrete pool, painted enclosure walls, metal spectator railing, and soft 8mm color may show a 1960s public zoo setting without identifying the specific facility.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the sea lions from a visitor viewpoint, shifting between animals resting on the pool edge, swimming in green water, and a brief view of spectators behind the barrier.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sea lions on a concrete ledge, green-tinted pool water, painted enclosure walls, a metal visitor barrier, distant spectators, rounded film-frame borders, and slight handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, muted blue-green color, and rounded 8mm frame edges that preserve the feel of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal-exhibit cutaway, zoo-visit transition, or memory beat within a sequence about leisure, childhood outings, or captive wildlife.
Historical context: The footage reflects a casual public viewing environment where zoo visitors watch sea lions from behind a barrier, while the enclosure design and pool setting provide visual context for mid-century animal display practices.
Research note: People are visible in the background, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, and the zoo facility is not identified from the frames alone.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s 8mm zoo sea lions, New Jersey home movie animal enclosure, vintage seal pool footage, and spectators watching sea lions at a zoo.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent clips from the same reel, then with other 1966 New Jersey zoo or family-outing footage, and then with broader vintage animal-enclosure or public-leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two sea lions rest on a concrete pool edge in supported 1966 New Jersey zoo home-movie footage, with painted enclosure walls and green water around them. — Two sea lions on the pool ledge.

A sea lion swims through green-tinted water in the zoo enclosure, framed by concrete pool edges and dark 8mm film borders. — Sea lion swimming in the enclosure pool.

A sea lion moves across the green zoo pool water in the 1966 New Jersey home-movie footage, with the enclosure wall and pool edge visible behind it. — Sea lion crossing the green pool.

A large sea lion rests on the concrete ledge of a zoo pool in 1966 New Jersey footage, with spectators visible behind a metal barrier in the background. — Resting sea lion with visitors behind the rail.

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