Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Playful Hippo At Night And Kudu Grazing In Daylight

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationLincoln Park, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Lincoln Park Illinois

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Playful Hippo At Night And Kudu Grazing In Daylight — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime scene at Lincoln Park Zoo, where a hippo glows under blue illumination behind bars. The footage transitions to daylight, showing white kudu grazing in a sunlit enclosure with trees and fencing visible. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a candid glimpse of zoo life from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124349230

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 1405 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: planes,lake geneva,colby,brookfield zoo,shrman,lincoln park
Reel-level year note: 1972
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1972 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: Lincoln Park, 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: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing visitor-shot zoo animal footage, especially short documentary inserts of nocturnal exhibits and daytime ungulate enclosures.
Period detail: The barred viewing areas, blue nighttime exhibit lighting, sunlit paddock fencing, and color-shifted 8mm texture support an early-1970s home-movie zoo context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged visitor perspective, observing animals from behind enclosure bars rather than presenting a formal wildlife or institutional record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue-lit hippo behind vertical bars, dark exhibit walls, white kudu grazing, sandy ground, trees, rail fencing, and sunlit zoo paddocks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, and color fading that give the animal scenes a tactile home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition from night to day, or memory beat for zoo visits, animal captivity, or 1970s family travel material.
Historical context: The footage shows how zoo animals were encountered by visitors through barred viewing lines and open paddock enclosures, without making broader claims about zoo practice.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, zoo location, and animal-property or venue permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 8mm Lincoln Park Zoo hippo, vintage zoo home movie, blue-lit hippo enclosure, and white kudu grazing in 1970s zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Lincoln Park or Illinois zoo footage from 1972, then broader 1970s home-movie animal and wildlife-enclosure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A hippo appears under blue nighttime lighting behind vertical bars at Lincoln Park Zoo in 1972 home-movie footage. — Blue-lit hippo seen through bars in a dark zoo exhibit.

The 1972 Lincoln Park Zoo footage shows a hippo behind dark bars, lit by blue nighttime exhibit light. — Hippo framed by enclosure bars under blue night lighting.

White kudu graze in a sunlit Lincoln Park Zoo paddock with bars, trees, and rail fencing visible in the 1972 footage. — White kudu graze in daylight behind vertical bars.

A horned kudu grazes near another white kudu in a sunlit zoo enclosure at Lincoln Park in the 1972 home movie. — Horned kudu grazing in a fenced zoo paddock.

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