Tijuana Mexico-1962: Sea Lion Swimming in Pool at Zoo

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationTijuana, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Tijuana Mexico

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Sea Lion Swimming in Pool at Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sea lion swimming in a green-tinted pool at a zoo in Tijuana, Mexico. The animal surfaces, lifts its head, and glides through the water, its dark silhouette visible against the light-colored pool walls. A crowd of spectators watches from behind a barrier in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky camera, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century family entertainment.

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: 123684043

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1835 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: pyramid,university city,$80000 house,floating gardens
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: dallas,mexico city
Date: 1962 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: Tijuana, Mexico 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: 1960s 8mm zoo footage for documentary or education projects needing a brief animal pool scene from Tijuana, Mexico.
Period detail: The pale pool edge, spectator barrier, and color-shifted 8mm look may show mid-century zoo visitor infrastructure and casual public viewing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, watching a sea lion surface and swim while people observe from behind the pool wall.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sea lion, green-tinted pool water, pale pool walls, ripples, dark film borders, and spectators along the upper edge.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, green color cast, uneven exposure, frame-edge vignetting, and handheld instability consistent with home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, animal cutaway, travel memory beat, or transition within a sequence about zoos or family tourism.
Historical context: The scene documents public animal viewing as captured by a home-movie camera, with the animal in a pool and spectators visible in the background.
Research note: People are visible in the background, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and animal-display context should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Tijuana zoo sea lion, 8mm home movie animal pool, vintage zoo spectators, and 1960s Mexico travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 Tijuana or Mexico travel scenes, then broader vintage zoo and animal-viewing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A sea lion surfaces in a green-tinted pool at a Tijuana zoo, seen in 1962 8mm home-movie footage. — Sea lion rises near the wall of a green-tinted zoo pool.

The sea lion glides across the green pool water in the 1962 Tijuana zoo home-movie scene. — Sea lion swims across the pool near the pale enclosure wall.

A sea lion lifts its body upright in the pool, filmed from a visitor viewpoint at a Tijuana zoo in 1962. — Sea lion rises vertically from the water as ripples spread around it.

The sea lion swims across the pool as spectators watch from behind the wall in the 1962 Tijuana zoo footage. — Sea lion moves through the pool with spectators visible along the far side.

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