Colorado USA-1959: A Person Feeds A Very Cute Chipmunk Some Delicious Food

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Person Feeds A Very Cute Chipmunk Some Delicious Food — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959 captures a person feeding a chipmunk on a rocky mountainside. A hand extends toward the small rodent, which cautiously approaches to eat from the palm. The scene unfolds under bright sunlight, casting sharp shadows on the rugged terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural motion, offering authentic archival footage of wildlife interaction in a scenic outdoor setting.

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: 121131860

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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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, 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: Useful for 1950s Colorado home-movie requests needing wildlife interaction, mountain travel texture, or a brief human-and-animal cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s outdoor leisure filming, with visible clues limited to handheld 8mm color, sunlit rocky terrain, and a visitor's hand feeding wildlife.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged gesture of a person quietly offering food to a small chipmunk during a mountain outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a human hand, a small chipmunk, flat rocks, dusty ground, strong shadows, and a distant mountain view.
Film character: The footage has 8mm color grain, uneven exposure, soft focus in the landscape frame, and handheld framing that reads as authentic home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, nature cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition from close wildlife detail to mountain scenery.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century recreational home filming of a casual wildlife encounter in a Colorado mountain setting, without enough detail to identify a site.
Research note: A person's hand is visible, so likeness review may still be prudent even though no faces, logos, brands, or private property are apparent.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Colorado 8mm chipmunk feeding, vintage mountain wildlife home movie, and midcentury Rocky Mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1959 mountain travel footage, then with other home-movie wildlife encounters.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a person's hand feeding a small chipmunk on rocky mountain ground. — A hand offers food to a chipmunk beside flat rocks in bright sunlight.

A small chipmunk is partly visible near rocks and sunlit dirt in a Colorado mountain home-movie frame. — The chipmunk stays close to the rocks while shadows cross the ground.

The chipmunk appears near a pale rock face and dusty ground, filmed in handheld 8mm color in Colorado. — The chipmunk moves along the rock edge under hard mountain sunlight.

A soft-focus Colorado mountain view appears at the end of the 1959 home-movie clip. — The scene cuts from the feeding close-up to a distant mountain landscape.

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