Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Tiger Prowls Around In Cage At The Zoo

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Colorado

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Colorado Springs Colorado USA — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a large tiger pacing within a metal-barred zoo enclosure. The tiger walks from left to right across the frame, its distinctive orange and black stripes visible through the cage. A bare artificial tree stands in the background, and the scene is captured with the characteristic grain, color bleed, and slight motion blur of analog film. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, capturing a moment of animal captivity in a mid-century American zoo setting.

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: 120961156

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 1382 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: air force academy,cripple creek,cheyne zoo,broadmoor,#2
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: colorado springs
Date: 1973 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: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 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 1973 8mm zoo clip helps solve archival requests for 1970s American animal-captivity footage, especially documentary inserts about zoos, wildlife display, family tourism, or changing public attitudes toward captive big cats.
Period detail: The metal-barred enclosure, painted artificial tree, soft color response, and visitor-shot framing may show a 1970s zoo habitat in Colorado Springs rather than a staged wildlife scene.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries the unstaged value of a visitor observing a tiger through enclosure bars, with the camera holding on the animal's pacing rather than directing any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tiger, vertical cage bars, a green enclosure wall, a pale artificial tree structure, a concrete ledge, dark film-frame borders, and the contact-sheet spacing between frames.
Film character: The clip has a physical 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, mild color bleed, high exposure on pale surfaces, and slight motion blur from handheld home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, reflective insert, or memory beat for zoo visits, captive wildlife, 1970s leisure footage, or archive-led transitions involving animals behind barriers.
Historical context: The scene documents a tiger displayed in a barred zoo enclosure, offering visual context for how visitors encountered large exotic animals in an American zoo setting during the early 1970s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any zoo property or institutional permissions separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs zoo tiger 8mm footage, 1970s tiger in cage home movie, vintage zoo enclosure big cat, and archival captive wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado zoo footage, and then with broader themes of 1970s family outings, zoo animals, or captive wildlife.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tiger walks left to right behind vertical metal bars in a Colorado Springs zoo enclosure, captured in soft 1973 8mm home-movie color. — Tiger pacing behind zoo bars.

The tiger continues across the barred zoo enclosure near a pale artificial tree, with its stripes softened by grain and color bleed in the 8mm frame. — Tiger crossing beside enclosure bars.

A tiger is partly obscured by the pale tree structure and vertical bars inside the Colorado Springs zoo enclosure, with the animal near the right side of the frame. — Tiger partly hidden by enclosure structure.

The tiger moves along the right side of the barred Colorado Springs zoo enclosure, passing the artificial tree as the home-movie frame shows soft exposure and grain. — Tiger moving along the enclosure edge.

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