Chicago Illinois USA-1969: Scary Animal Circus Act Routine With A Person

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

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Scary Animal Circus Act Routine With A Person — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1969 captures a surreal circus performance in Chicago, Illinois. A person in a large, furry white tiger costume with black stripes performs on stage, their movements exaggerated and slightly unsettling. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows the costumed performer interacting with another individual in period attire, possibly a ringmaster or fellow entertainer. The scene is lit with dramatic red stage lights against a dark backdrop, creating a nostalgic and slightly eerie atmosphere typical of mid-century amateur film recordings.

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: 124337593

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: Supports requests for late-1960s Chicago amateur footage of circus or stage entertainment for documentary inserts, education projects, or period atmosphere.
Period detail: The costumes, dark stage setting, red theatrical lighting, and 8mm color rendering may show a 1969 indoor circus or variety act recorded from the audience.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has visitor-shot value, showing a brief audience perspective on a costumed performance rather than a staged production camera angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white striped animal costume, a performer in pink, a woman in a pale costume, red stage lights, a dark backdrop, and soft 8mm focus.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, blue color cast, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-print texture consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a surreal circus cutaway, a brief memory beat, or a transition into mid-century public entertainment footage.
Historical context: The scene reflects amateur documentation of live entertainment, with costumed performers and theatrical lighting visible but no identifiable venue shown.
Research note: People and performer likenesses are visible, so copyright, performance rights, and likeness permissions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Chicago 8mm circus act, vintage home movie animal costume, and late 1960s stage performance footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Chicago clips, then related circus, costume, stage-show, or audience-shot material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 Chicago home-movie footage, a performer in a large white striped animal costume faces the camera on a dark stage. — A furry white striped animal costume fills the frame under dim stage lighting.

A performer in pink and another in a pale costume appear to handle or ride a white animal-costume figure on a Chicago stage. — Performers in period costumes interact beside the white animal figure against red stage lights.

A pale-costumed performer is visible beside a white animal figure, with another performer partly seen at the left edge. — A performer in a pale costume appears beside the animal figure while another performer is partly cropped.

Two costumed performers appear beside the white animal figure on a dim stage, recorded in soft 8mm color footage. — The act continues with two performers close to the white animal figure under low stage light.

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