Catskill New York USA-1962: Groundhogs Searching For Food Along A Rocky Ground

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCatskill, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 New York

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Groundhogs Searching For Food Along A Rocky Ground — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a group of groundhogs foraging on a rocky, gravelly terrain in the Catskill Mountains. The footage shows several groundhogs actively searching for food, with some standing alert on their hind legs while others move across the uneven ground. The scene is rendered in the characteristic purple-tinted color palette of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The naturalistic, unscripted behavior of the animals provides authentic wildlife footage from a classic American backyard or park setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123752095

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 1182 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: zoo
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: new york
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: 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

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 1960s archival wildlife requests needing brief, non-staged groundhog behavior in a Catskill, New York home-movie context.
Period detail: The visible period evidence is mainly the aged 8mm color, grain, soft focus, and metadata-supported 1962 Catskill location rather than built environment or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a home-movie camera watching wild groundhogs forage and pause alertly without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several groundhogs, rocky gravel ground, sparse small debris, soft natural light, frame borders, and purple-tinted film grain.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm look with heavy grain, purple color shift, soft focus, motion blur, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife cutaway, rural nature insert, or quiet transitional beat in a Catskills or 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows informal mid-century amateur wildlife filming, with attention on animal behavior rather than people, buildings, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location, and wildlife-use context should still be checked by the producer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Catskill New York 8mm groundhogs, vintage home movie wildlife, groundhogs foraging on rocks, and archival woodland animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1962 Catskill footage, then broader vintage 8mm wildlife or rural nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Catskill 8mm frame showing groundhogs on rocky ground, including one alert upright animal and others feeding or moving nearby. — Groundhogs forage across rocky ground, with one animal upright and alert at left.

1962 Catskill home-movie frame of groundhogs scattered over rocky ground, including an upright animal and a partially cropped one at lower right. — Groundhogs remain spread across the gravel, some feeding and one standing alert.

1962 Catskill 8mm frame with groundhogs foraging on uneven gravel, one upright at left and others low to the ground. — A small group of groundhogs feeds and moves across uneven rocky terrain.

1962 Catskill frame showing softly blurred groundhogs on rocky ground, including an upright animal and a partially cropped groundhog at right. — Motion-blurred groundhogs continue foraging as the home-movie camera holds on the group.

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