Ohio USA-1966: Sea Lion Balancing Ball During Zoo Performance

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Ohio

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Sea Lion Balancing Ball During Zoo Performance — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ohio USA in 1966 captures a sea lion performance at a zoo or marine park. A trainer in a cowboy hat and blue shirt stands on a circular stage with a green pool, guiding a sea lion as it balances a ball on its nose. The set features a Western-style building, cacti, and desert-themed backdrop. The film shows natural color fading, grain, and scratches typical of 8mm archival footage, with a viewer's head visible in the foreground. The sequence ends with the image fading to a blank, scratched frame.

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: 120944202

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: Ohio, 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

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 requests needing 1960s Ohio home-movie footage of a zoo or marine-park animal performance for documentary, museum, education, or period recreation context.
Period detail: The cowboy-hat trainer, Western-style set dressing, painted desert backdrop, and 8mm color stock support a mid-1960s visitor-attraction setting, while the exact venue is not identified in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint from the audience, with heads at the lower edge and the action framed casually rather than as an official performance recording.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sea lion on a circular stage, a trainer in a cowboy hat and blue shirt, a ball prop, a green pool edge, a Western facade, cactus scenery, audience heads, and blank leader-like frames at the end.
Film character: The scan shows faded 8mm color, soft focus, vertical scratches, dust, gate edges, and exposure shifts that give the short sequence clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, or transitional cutaway for mid-century leisure, zoo entertainment, animal acts, or family travel sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a public animal-performance setting from the era, showing a trained pinniped act staged for visitors without making claims about the specific institution or animal-care conditions.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed, while copyright, venue permissions, animal-performance context, and any property or set-design concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1966 Ohio 8mm zoo performance, vintage home movie sea lion act, marine park animal show, trainer with ball, and 1960s family attraction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Ohio 1966 visitor-attraction material, and finally with zoo, marine-park, animal-performance, or family-travel footage from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Ohio 8mm frame showing a sea lion performing near a trainer in a cowboy hat on a circular stage with Western-style scenery and audience heads at the bottom edge. — Sea lion act on a circular stage.

Faded 8mm frame from the Ohio sea lion performance, with the trainer, sea lion, Western facade, pool edge, and audience foreground partly visible through heavy color shift. — Faded frame during the animal act.

Mostly blank scratched 8mm frame following the performance image, showing pale exposure, dust, vertical marks, and faint remnants of the pool edge. — Blank scratched film frame.

End frame from the scanned 8mm clip, largely blank with pale gray exposure, vertical scratch lines, dust, and dark film borders. — End frame with film scratches.

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