Chicago Illinois USA-1969: Performers Dressed As A Tiger Skating On Ice

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Performers Dressed As A Tiger Skating On Ice — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1969 captures a surreal ice skating performance in Chicago, Illinois. A performer in a bulky, white tiger costume with large eyes and striped fur skates under dramatic blue stage lighting. The grainy, low-light footage shows the costumed figure moving across the ice, with blurred lights in the background and silhouettes of an audience watching. The clip has a nostalgic, amateur quality typical of Super 8 home movies, with a slightly distorted color palette and film grain.

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: 124337587

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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: Chicago, Illinois, 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 Chicago home-movie footage suited to requests for ice-show performance, costumed skating, or surreal stage entertainment inserts.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1960s arena or rink performance, with theatrical blue lighting, audience silhouettes, and a bulky white tiger costume visible on the ice.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a spectator's low-light view from the audience, valuing the offstage vantage, shaky framing, and fleeting reactions over staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white tiger costume, striped fur, large costume eyes, ice-rink boards, blue stage light, red highlights, and dark audience silhouettes.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, soft focus, saturated blue exposure, and handheld framing that give the performance an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, transition, or offbeat cutaway within sequences about ice shows, Chicago recreation, or 1960s entertainment.
Historical context: The footage suggests family or visitor documentation of a theatrical ice performance, showing how spectacle was recorded from a public audience perspective.
Research note: People are present as performers or audience silhouettes, so copyright, performer likeness, venue context, and any underlying choreography should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Chicago 8mm ice show, vintage tiger costume skating, home movie arena performance, and 1960s theatrical ice entertainment.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel rink or audience material, then Chicago 1969 footage, then other vintage costumed skating or stage-performance clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Chicago home-movie frame showing a white tiger costume head on an ice-show stage under blue light, partly obscured by audience silhouettes. — A white tiger costume head appears in blue stage light above the dark audience line.

The tiger-costumed performer turns in profile as red light catches the lower face area.

1969 Chicago home-movie frame showing the tiger-costumed skater leaning forward near the rink boards during a theatrical ice performance. — The costumed skater bends forward near the rink boards in dim blue light.

1969 Chicago frame of a white tiger costumed performer beside rink boards, with striped fur, whiskers, and theatrical blue-red lighting visible. — The tiger-costumed performer stands beside the rink boards as blue and red stage light falls across the scene.

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