Quebec Canada-1952: Cute Chimpanzee Playing And Moving Around The Enclosure And Sucking Thumb

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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Cute Chimpanzee Playing And Moving Around The Enclosure... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a chimpanzee in a zoo enclosure. The primate sits on a metal grate, occasionally moving and bringing its hand to its mouth in a thumb-sucking motion. The footage has a grainy, greenish tint typical of old Super 8 film, with visible film scratches and a dark vignette frame. The chimpanzee appears calm and observant, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century animal care and home movie documentation.

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: 123332634

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 1570 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: dr. mc petersen
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: florida,washington dc,canada
Date: 1952 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: Quebec, Canada 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 1950s Canadian zoo, animal-care, and home-movie requests needing a brief visitor-shot cutaway of a chimpanzee in an enclosure.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie format, soft color, metal grate enclosure, and dated metadata support a 1952 Quebec zoo context, though no landmark signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, watching the chimpanzee sit, shift position, and bring a hand toward its mouth through a close enclosure view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a chimpanzee, metal grate flooring, dark enclosure framing, greenish glass or film cast, hands near the mouth, and heavy edge vignette.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, scratches, and green color shift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, mid-century zoo transition, or quiet observational beat in a memory sequence.
Historical context: The frames show a mid-century visitor-recorded view of a zoo primate enclosure, offering visual context for animal display and amateur travel filming.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, zoo property context, and animal-use sensitivities should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1952 Quebec 8mm zoo footage, vintage chimpanzee enclosure, mid-century animal home movie, and primate cutaway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo or travel shots, then other 1952 Quebec material, then broader vintage zoo and animal-behavior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Quebec home-movie frame showing a chimpanzee seated on metal grating in a dim zoo enclosure. — A chimpanzee sits low on the grate floor, partially obscured by dark framing and film shadow.

1952 Quebec home-movie frame of a chimpanzee on a grate floor, hand raised near the mouth in the enclosure. — The chimpanzee faces forward with a hand near its mouth, surrounded by dim enclosure shadows.

1952 Quebec home-movie frame showing the chimpanzee lower in the enclosure, partly reclined or moving on the grate. — The animal drops lower in the frame as it shifts position across the metal grating.

1952 Quebec home-movie frame of the chimpanzee crouched in the enclosure, with visible grain, stains, and dark edges. — The chimpanzee remains close to the grate floor as film staining and vignette obscure part of the view.

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