Portland Oregon USA-1957: A Fitful Visit To A Zoo Where We Saw A Turkey

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationPortland, Oregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Portland Oregon

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A Fitful Visit To A Zoo Where We Saw A Turkey — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, showing a scenic rural road trip viewed from a moving vehicle. The clip features a winding asphalt road through open countryside with wooden fences, scattered trees, and distant mountains under a pale blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain. The final frame transitions to a peacock walking in a grassy enclosure, suggesting a visit to a zoo or wildlife park. The footage captures a nostalgic, calm moment of mid-century American travel and leisure.

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: 122656175

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 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: Portland, Oregon, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s Oregon home-movie requests needing rural road travel, zoo visit atmosphere, or quiet mid-century leisure cutaways.
Period detail: The paved two-lane road, open fencing, farm buildings, and visitor-filmed animal enclosure may show mid-century regional travel and recreation around Portland.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual family-visit viewpoint, shifting from scenery seen on the road to animals encountered during a zoo or wildlife-park stop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding road, wooden fence lines, distant mountains, grassy fields, farm structures, a peacock, and a grassy enclosure.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, mild gate edges, subdued color, visible grain, and slight handheld or in-camera instability typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, a transition from road footage to zoo material, or a quiet memory beat in a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage suggests an ordinary postwar leisure outing, with road scenery and animal viewing captured from a nonprofessional family camera.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any zoo or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1957 Portland Oregon 8mm road trip, vintage zoo peacock footage, 1950s home movie animal enclosure, and rural Oregon travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then Portland or Oregon 1957 material, then broader 1950s road-trip and zoo-visit footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Oregon home-movie frame showing a rural road curving past fences toward distant mountains near Portland. — A road curves through open countryside with fence posts and mountains in the distance.

1957 Oregon road scene with a curving paved road, roadside fencing, fields, and low mountains beyond. — The moving view holds on the road, fields, fence line, and distant mountain range.

1957 Portland-area zoo or wildlife-park frame showing a peacock on grass with simple buildings behind it. — A peacock stands in a grassy area with low structures and trees in the background.

Home-movie frame from the 1957 Portland visit showing a peacock moving through a grassy animal enclosure. — A peacock walks through the grass, partly framed by enclosure plants and film-edge shadow.

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