Catskill New York-1957: Donkey and Deer at Catskill Game Farm

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationCatskill, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Catskill New York

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Donkey and Deer at Catskill Game Farm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957 at the Catskill Game Farm in New York, this vintage home movie captures a donkey grazing near a wire fence in a rustic enclosure. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows the animal eating from the ground as another donkey moves in the background. The scene transitions to a deer walking calmly behind a barbed wire fence, with trees visible beyond. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and warm color tones—evoking a nostalgic mid-century American zoo experience.

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: 123446459

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1957 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: Catskill, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s editorial requests needing visitor-shot Catskill Game Farm animal enclosure footage for documentary, museum, or education sequences.
Period detail: The wire fencing, rustic pens, muted color, and handheld 8mm framing support a mid-century zoo or game-farm setting in Catskill, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on animals grazing and moving quietly rather than presenting a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark donkey, dirt and grass ground, wire fencing, a feed bucket, tree trunks, a deer, and wooded background.
Film character: Soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and warm faded color give the short 8mm scan its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief animal cutaway, rural zoo insert, transition beat, or memory detail within a mid-century travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a family-visitor view of captive animal displays at a New York game farm, without showing staff, crowds, signage, or branded material.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm Catskill Game Farm footage, donkey grazing by wire fence, deer in enclosure, and vintage home movie zoo animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel animal scenes, then Catskill Game Farm 1957 material, then broader 1950s zoo, game-farm, and rural animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark donkey grazes near wire fencing at Catskill Game Farm in 1957 home-movie footage. — A donkey lowers its head to graze near the fence inside a rustic enclosure.

Donkey grazes beside a wire fence and small bucket in the Catskill Game Farm enclosure. — The donkey remains near the fence line with a bucket visible at the edge of the pen.

A donkey grazes in soft 8mm color, framed by trees and fencing at the Catskill Game Farm. — The camera holds on the grazing donkey in the shaded animal pen.

A deer moves behind wire fencing in a wooded Catskill Game Farm enclosure in 1957 footage. — A deer walks calmly behind the enclosure fence with trees beyond it.

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