Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Camel Walking Around An Outdoor Nature Zoo With

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

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Camel Walking Around An Outdoor Nature Zoo With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a camel walking through an outdoor enclosure at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The footage begins with a blurry, obscured view through a dark frame, gradually revealing the camel in a sunlit, grassy habitat with trees and fencing. The camel moves slowly across the sandy ground, its light brown coat and long neck clearly visible. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, authentic home movie quality, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century zoo life and family memories.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124349239

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 editorial or documentary requests needing visitor-shot zoo animal footage from Chicago's Lincoln Park area.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and simple outdoor zoo enclosure may show early 1970s public-zoo presentation and amateur filming practice.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, with the camera first partly blocked before settling on the camel in its enclosure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a camel, sandy ground, sparse grass, trees, chain-link fencing, dark film edges, and sunlit enclosure space.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, faded color, uneven exposure, soft focus, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief animal cutaway, zoo visit insert, memory beat, or transition within a 1970s family or public-space sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a casual zoo visit, showing an animal enclosure and visitor-held filming rather than a staged wildlife sequence.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but copyright, zoo property context, and animal-location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1972 8mm zoo camel footage, Lincoln Park Zoo home movie, vintage Chicago animal enclosure, or 1970s zoo visit cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Lincoln Park or 1972 Chicago zoo clips, then broader vintage zoo and animal-visit footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm frame from Lincoln Park Zoo with a camel head partly visible behind heavy dark framing and soft focus. — The opening frame catches only part of the camel through a dark, obstructed view.

Lincoln Park Zoo camel footage remains partially blocked, showing the animal's head and neck near grass in a faded 8mm frame. — The camel is still mostly hidden by the camera obstruction, with grass visible behind it.

A light brown camel stands in a sunlit outdoor enclosure at Lincoln Park Zoo, with trees and chain-link fencing in the background. — The camera clears to show the camel broadside in its fenced outdoor habitat.

The camel walks through the Lincoln Park Zoo enclosure, framed in soft 8mm color with trees, fencing, and sandy ground visible. — The camel moves slowly across the enclosure as the handheld camera follows from a distance.

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