Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Camel and Zebra in Zoo Enclosures

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

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Camel and Zebra in Zoo Enclosures — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a camel and a zebra in their zoo enclosures at Lincoln Park, Illinois. The camel ambles slowly across a sun-drenched dirt yard, its large frame moving past a chain-link fence and tree trunk. A zebra grazes calmly in another enclosure, its black-and-white stripes standing out against the dusty ground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic 1970s family outing. The scenes are quiet and observational, offering authentic archival footage of zoo animals in a mid-century urban setting.

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: 124349252

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm zoo footage for documentary or educational sequences needing brief animal enclosure cutaways from an urban family outing.
Period detail: The frames show 1972-era home-movie color, zoo fencing, dirt yards, shade trees, and simple enclosure structures consistent with the supplied Lincoln Park, Illinois metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The short clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the camel and zebra calmly from outside their enclosures without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a camel, zebra, chain-link fencing, dirt enclosure ground, tree trunks, enclosure walls, shade, and a building edge.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing typical of scanned family film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for zoo visits, urban wildlife displays, or 1970s leisure scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents zoo animals viewed in enclosed public settings, offering visual context for family recreation and animal display practices of the period.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, archive source permissions, and any location or animal facility context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1972 8mm zoo animals, Lincoln Park Illinois camel, vintage home movie zebra enclosure, and 1970s urban zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo scenes, then with other 1972 Lincoln Park material, and then with broader vintage zoo animal or family outing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A camel stands in a Lincoln Park zoo enclosure in 1972-era 8mm footage, with chain-link fence, dirt ground, and trees visible. — Camel beside a tree and fence in a sunlit zoo enclosure.

Side view of a camel in a Lincoln Park, Illinois zoo enclosure, filmed on 8mm with fencing, trees, and dusty ground visible. — Side view of the camel in its fenced enclosure.

A zebra lowers its head in a Lincoln Park zoo enclosure, with trees, enclosure walls, and sunlit dirt ground in the 8mm frame. — Zebra near trees and enclosure walls on dusty ground.

A zebra moves through a Lincoln Park, Illinois zoo enclosure in 1972 home-movie footage, with a tree, wall, and shaded yard visible. — Zebra moving across a shaded zoo yard near a tree.

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