South Dakota USA-1966: Two Brown Donkeys Are Fed By A Human In A Car

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 South Dakota

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Two Brown Donkeys Are Fed By A Human In A Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures two brown donkeys up close as they are fed by a human hand. The grainy, slightly overexposed footage shows the animals' curious faces and snouts as they eat from a person's palm, with a natural outdoor setting visible in the background. The warm, faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic 1960s Americana feel, offering a rare glimpse into rural life and animal interaction from a personal perspective.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124061139

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 2546 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: mayo clinic
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: wyoming, black hills south dakota
Date: 1966 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: South Dakota, 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 South Dakota home-movie requests needing close animal interaction, roadside farm-park material, or rural family-travel cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color, car-window viewpoint, and dated metadata support a 1966 South Dakota home-movie setting, though no landmark or signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the close, informal act of a person feeding donkeys by hand from inside a car.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two brown donkeys, large snouts near the lens, a human hand with food, a car-window edge, outdoor trees, pale sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows handheld 8mm texture with heavy grain, soft focus, blown highlights, purple color shift, and contact-print framing that reads as physical home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief animal cutaway, a family road-trip insert, a rural travel transition, or a tactile memory beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual visitor interaction with animals in a rural outdoor setting, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific farm, park, or attraction.
Research note: Copyright, likeness, and property status should be reviewed separately; a human hand is visible, but no faces, logos, or identifiable private property appear in these frames.
Research search match: Search matches include 1966 South Dakota 8mm donkeys, home movie animal feeding, roadside farm animals, donkey snout close-up, and vintage car-window feeding footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then South Dakota 1966 travel footage, then other 1960s home-movie animal or farm interaction scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 South Dakota 8mm frame showing two brown donkeys very close to the camera at a car window, with trees and sky behind them. — Two donkeys crowd the car window and lens in a close-up home-movie frame.

Close 8mm view of two brown donkeys in South Dakota, with one face centered and another partly cropped beside it. — A centered donkey face and a second cropped donkey fill the frame.

1966 home-movie frame showing a brown donkey eating from a human hand beside a car window in an outdoor setting. — A donkey takes food from a person's hand at the car window.

Close 8mm frame of a brown donkey lowering its muzzle to a human hand near a car window, with branches visible outside. — The donkey leans down toward an outstretched hand for food.

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