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Kansas City Missouri-1959: Tortoises Eating at Feeding Trough

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1959
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationKansas City, Missouri, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1959 Kansas City Missouri

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Tortoises Eating at Feeding Trough — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a group of large tortoises in a sandy enclosure. The footage begins with a single tortoise slowly moving across the textured ground, then transitions to a wider view showing multiple tortoises gathered around a long black feeding trough. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the late 1950s. The tortoises, with their dark, patterned shells, move deliberately as they eat from the trough. The scene evokes a sense of quiet observation, likely filmed at a zoo or wildlife exhibit in Kansas City, Missouri.

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
123142277

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
1959 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
Kansas City, Missouri, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

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  • vintage tortoise footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a brief animal cutaway, zoo-like enclosure detail, or quiet home-movie wildlife observation from Kansas City, Missouri.
Period detail
The 1959 8mm color look, sandy enclosure, simple trough, and visitor-style framing may show a mid-century zoo or wildlife exhibit setting.
Home-movie behavior
The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective, watching tortoises move and feed without narration, posing, or arranged human action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a single tortoise on sand, a group of tortoises, a long black feeding trough, textured enclosure ground, faded color, and soft frame edges.
Film character
The footage has visible grain, soft focus, slight color fade, and handheld 8mm framing that give the animal scene clear home-movie archival texture.
Edit role
Editors can use this as a short animal insert, zoo cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat within mid-century family travel or wildlife sequences.
Historical context
The footage visually suggests public animal observation in the late 1950s, but the frames do not identify a specific zoo, institution, or exhibit.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or enclosure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1959 8mm tortoises eating, Kansas City home movie zoo animals, vintage turtle enclosure footage, and mid-century wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent same-reel animal or travel footage, then Kansas City 1959 material, then broader vintage zoo and tortoise feeding scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large tortoise crosses a sandy enclosure in 1959 Kansas City home-movie footage, framed by dark film edges.
Single tortoise moving across textured sand inside an enclosure.
A tortoise on sandy enclosure ground appears in soft, faded 1959 8mm footage from Kansas City, Missouri.
Tortoise viewed from above on sand, with the frame edges visible.
Multiple tortoises cluster along a long black feeding trough in a sandy enclosure in 1959 Kansas City home-movie footage.
Group of tortoises gathered around a long trough in the enclosure.
A wider view shows tortoises eating beside a black trough on sand, consistent with 1959 Kansas City 8mm home-movie footage.
Tortoises feeding together beside a long black trough on sandy ground.

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