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Kansas City Missouri-1959: Baby Elephant Searching Near Rocks in Zoo Enclosure

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

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Baby Elephant Searching Near Rocks in Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a baby elephant in a zoo enclosure in Kansas City, Missouri. The young elephant, with visible tusks, moves slowly among rocks near a metal gate, its trunk lowered as it searches the ground. The footage shows the animal's calm but constrained presence within a man-made habitat, surrounded by stone walls and fencing. The greenish tint and grainy texture are characteristic of 8mm home movie film from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century zoo life and animal captivity.

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
123144865

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

  • animal
  • tame
  • captivity
  • sad
  • exploitation
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  • elephant
  • eating
  • searching
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  • 1959
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  • zoo enclosure 1959
  • old film footage
  • 1950s wildlife

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s zoo, animal captivity, or mid-century leisure sequences needing a brief 8mm cutaway of a young elephant in an enclosure.
Period detail
The metal gate, stone habitat, and green-tinted 8mm texture support the 1959 home-movie context without identifying a specific zoo landmark.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the elephant quietly rather than staging a formal animal portrait.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a young elephant, lowered trunk, small tusks, rocks, concrete or stone walls, a metal gate, fencing, and dark film borders.
Film character
The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, green color shift, gate weave, and uneven exposure consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, zoo memory beat, or reflective transition about confinement and observation.
Historical context
The footage documents a mid-century zoo enclosure view, showing a large animal in a built habitat with barriers and hard landscaping.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any zoo or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1959 8mm Kansas City zoo footage, baby elephant enclosure, vintage home movie animal captivity, and mid-century zoo cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with same-reel zoo or family travel footage, then Kansas City 1959 material, then broader 1950s animal enclosure or zoo visitor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame of a young elephant near rocks, fencing, and a metal gate in a zoo enclosure.
A young elephant lowers its trunk among rocks beside a metal gate.
1959 Kansas City zoo footage frame showing a young elephant extending its trunk across rocks near a fenced gate.
The elephant reaches its trunk across the rocky ground near the fence.
1959 Kansas City 8mm frame with the young elephant facing forward near rocks, fencing, and enclosure walls.
The elephant turns forward, with small tusks visible near the gate.
1959 Kansas City home-movie frame of a young elephant near the back of a rocky zoo enclosure with gate and fence rails.
The elephant stands near the back of the rocky enclosure by the metal gate.

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