Disneyland California-1962: Elephant Wading In Water Habitat With Waterfall

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationDisneyland, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Elephant Wading In Water Habitat With Waterfall — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures an elephant wading through a shallow pool in a landscaped enclosure at Disneyland California. The scene features a cascading waterfall, rocky formations, and lush greenery, with the elephant moving calmly through the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a blue-purple tint and film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century theme park animal exhibits. The elephant is seen from multiple angles as it walks and splashes, with a white crook visible in one frame, suggesting a handler or caretaker nearby. This archival clip provides authentic, unscripted footage of a Disneyland attraction from the early 1960s.

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: 123804945

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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
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: Disneyland, California, 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: 1960s 8mm Disneyland animal-attraction footage suited to documentary inserts about mid-century theme parks, leisure travel, or captive wildlife displays.
Period detail: The landscaped rockwork, waterfall pool, and visitor-shot framing may show an early-1960s theme park animal exhibit as recorded by a home-movie camera.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor viewpoint, lingering on the elephant's movement through water rather than presenting a formal filmed attraction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant in a shallow pool, artificial rock formations, cascading water, green planting, rippled water, and a white crook-like pole in one frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure fluctuation, handheld framing, and a blue-purple color shift typical of aged amateur color film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for vintage Disneyland, animal exhibits, or family travel sequences.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for how a theme park animal habitat was encountered by visitors in the early 1960s without showing crowds or identifiable people.
Research note: No people or logos are visible in these frames, but Disneyland identification and possible property or attraction rights should be reviewed separately from film copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 Disneyland elephant footage, 8mm theme park animal exhibit, vintage home movie elephant pool, and early 1960s California attraction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Disneyland material, then other 1962 Disneyland clips, then broader 1960s theme park or captive elephant footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Disneyland home-movie frame showing a shallow pool, artificial rocks, and small waterfalls in an animal habitat. — Rock-lined pool and cascading water in the elephant enclosure.

1962 Disneyland frame of a landscaped pool area with rockwork, greenery, and a low cascade, before the elephant enters view. — Low waterfall and rocks beside the shallow pool.

1962 Disneyland home-movie frame showing an elephant wading in water near rockwork, greenery, and a white crook-like pole. — Elephant wades in the pool with a white crook-like pole at left.

1962 Disneyland frame showing an elephant facing the camera in a shallow landscaped pool with rocks and plants behind it. — Elephant faces the camera while moving through the water.

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