New York USA-1939: Tiger Bites Pole in Zoo Cage

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

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Tiger Bites Pole in Zoo Cage — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a tiger behind bars in a zoo enclosure, its striped form visible through thick metal grates. The animal stands near a vertical pole, appearing to bite or interact with it, its movements captured in grainy black-and-white footage. The sequence ends with a classic 'The End' title card, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur film reels. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight flicker, and a dark vignette, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This rare glimpse of a zoo animal from the late 1930s offers authentic historical context for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123041757

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: Useful for 1930s New York zoo or animal-captivity sequences needing brief authentic 8mm insert material.
Period detail: The barred enclosure, black-and-white 8mm texture, and end title card support a late-1930s amateur-film context from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the tiger through cage bars rather than staging or narrating the animal behavior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tiger, metal cage grid, vertical pole, dark gate bars, enclosure wall, film grain, and a handwritten end card.
Film character: The clip shows dense grain, flicker, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark edge vignetting typical of scanned amateur 8mm footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, zoo-life insert, animal-behavior beat, or transition into an end-of-reel moment.
Historical context: The sequence visually documents a zoo visitor's view of a tiger in a confined barred enclosure, without identifying the specific zoo site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should separately assess copyright status and any institutional property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 New York zoo tiger 8mm, vintage tiger cage footage, home movie zoo animal, and tiger behind bars archival clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby same-reel zoo or end-card shots, then with 1939 New York material, then with vintage animal-captivity footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York home-movie footage, a tiger stands behind a gridded zoo cage near a vertical pole. — Tiger seen through cage bars near a vertical pole.

The tiger remains behind the metal cage grid, with its striped body partly hidden by the pole and dark frame edges. — Striped tiger partially hidden behind the cage structure.

A tiger is filmed through the zoo enclosure grid, its body and head partly obscured by the pole and cage bars. — Tiger framed by the barred zoo enclosure.

The clip ends on a soft, handwritten 'The End' title card, consistent with an amateur 8mm reel ending. — Handwritten end title card closes the reel.

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