New York USA-1939: Wildlife Animals Caged Up At The Zoo

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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Wildlife Animals Caged Up At The Zoo — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1939: This vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a series of stark, grainy black-and-white scenes from a zoo. The clip opens with a group of penguins standing on a rocky enclosure floor before transitioning to a dark, grid-patterned cage. A tiger is seen moving restlessly behind the bars, its striped form visible through the metal grid. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including heavy grain, soft focus, and a narrow, rounded frame, evoking a sense of historical documentation and archival curiosity.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123041694

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 1676 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jane
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: new york,washington
Date: 1939 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: New York, 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: 1930s New York zoo footage for documentary or educational edits needing brief views of captive wildlife in an urban public attraction.
Period detail: The footage may show 1939-era zoo enclosures, with penguins on a rocky floor and a tiger behind a heavy square-bar cage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing zoo animals from outside enclosures without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include penguins, a stone or rocky enclosure, a rough wall, metal cage bars, a tiger, a tree trunk or post, and dark interior shadows.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for zoo visits, captive animals, or prewar urban leisure.
Historical context: The images document how zoo animals appeared to a home-movie visitor, emphasizing enclosure design and spectatorship rather than animal behavior in the wild.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any zoo or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s New York zoo home movie, 8mm tiger in cage, vintage penguins enclosure, and captive wildlife archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York zoo material, then broader vintage zoo and captive wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York zoo footage, several penguins stand together on a rocky enclosure floor beside a rough masonry wall. — Penguins gathered in a rocky zoo enclosure.

A tiger appears partly obscured behind square metal cage bars in dark black-and-white 8mm zoo footage. — Tiger partly visible behind a metal cage grid.

A tiger is seen through a gridded zoo cage, partly blocked by a vertical trunk or post in the foreground. — Tiger seen through cage bars beside a vertical post.

A caged tiger appears behind square metal bars in a New York zoo home-movie frame from the 1930s. — Caged tiger framed by bars and a vertical post.

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