Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: A Group Of Ostriches Roaming In An Enclosure In

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

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A Group Of Ostriches Roaming In An Enclosure In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures an ostrich roaming within a sandy enclosure at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The bird, with its distinctive black and white plumage and long neck, walks slowly across the frame, occasionally bending down. A chain-link fence and trees form the backdrop, with natural daylight illuminating the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of zoo animals from the early 1970s.

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: 124349261

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 1970s 8mm zoo-animal footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief archival cutaway of ostriches in captivity.
Period detail: The chain-link enclosure, sandy ground, muted color, and handheld 8mm look support the supplied 1972 Lincoln Park Zoo context without adding specific landmark claims.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, watching the ostriches from outside the enclosure with casual framing and brief animal movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ostriches, sandy enclosure ground, chain-link fencing, trees, shadows, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, zoo transition, or memory beat within a 1970s Chicago or family travel sequence.
Historical context: The visuals place zoo animals in a modest outdoor enclosure, offering context for visitor experiences and captive wildlife viewing in the early 1970s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location permissions, and animal-facility property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1972 8mm Lincoln Park Zoo ostrich footage, vintage Chicago zoo animal cutaway, and home-movie ostriches in enclosure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1972 Lincoln Park or Chicago zoo footage, then broader vintage zoo and captive wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Lincoln Park Zoo home-movie frame showing an ostrich in a sandy enclosure with chain-link fencing and trees behind it. — An ostrich moves through a sandy enclosure with fencing and tree trunks in the background.

The ostrich pauses in profile near the fence line of the enclosure.

1972 Lincoln Park Zoo home-movie frame showing two ostriches close together near a sandy enclosure edge and chain-link fence. — Two ostriches stand close together near the lower edge of the zoo enclosure.

1972 Lincoln Park Zoo frame showing two ostriches partly near the frame edge, with chain-link fencing, trees, and soft 8mm color. — Two ostriches remain near the enclosure edge as trees and fencing fill the background.

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