Paris France-1939: Hippo Attraction At A Zoo

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationParis, France
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Paris France

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Hippo Attraction At A Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a zoo enclosure in Paris, France. A large circular fountain with a central sculpture is surrounded by vibrant red flowerbeds and manicured lawns. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—warm color tones, slight grain, and soft focus—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The scene is calm, with no visible people or animals in motion, offering a quiet glimpse into mid-century public life and urban park design.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123117860

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 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: Paris, France 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

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 8mm Paris zoo footage suited for documentary inserts about public leisure, animal attractions, urban gardens, or prewar European travel.
Period detail: The clip may show a formal zoo or park enclosure with circular paths, low railings, flowerbeds, and distant visitors, consistent with visitor-shot Paris footage dated 1939 in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor viewpoint across lawns and flowerbeds, valuing the everyday act of looking at a public animal attraction rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a circular enclosure or fountain area, red flowerbeds, trimmed grass, curved paths, railings, distant visitors, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, light exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition within sequences about Paris, zoos, leisure, or prewar public spaces.
Historical context: The footage offers a small visual record of public zoo-going and landscaped urban leisure in Paris, without enough detail to identify the specific enclosure or institution from the frames alone.
Research note: People appear only as small distant figures, but likeness review may still be needed; copyright, access, and any zoo or property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Paris zoo 8mm footage, prewar France home movie animal attraction, vintage zoo enclosure film, and Paris public garden archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Paris material, then with zoo, animal attraction, public garden, and prewar travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Paris 8mm frame showing lawns, red flowerbeds, curved paths, railings, and small distant visitors near a zoo attraction. — Visitor-shot view across landscaped grounds toward a circular zoo attraction.

1939 Paris zoo footage frame with a circular landscaped attraction, red flowerbeds, paths, railings, and tiny distant visitors. — Curved paths and flowerbeds frame the zoo attraction from a visitor perspective.

Warm-toned 1939 Paris frame showing red flowerbeds, a pale path, grass, railings, and a circular zoo attraction beyond. — A soft, handheld view of flowerbeds and the circular attraction area.

1939 Paris 8mm frame of a zoo attraction area with manicured grass, red flowerbeds, curved paths, railings, and tiny visitors. — Distant visitors appear around the landscaped zoo attraction.

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