Lincoln Park Illinois USA-1972: Giraffes Roaming At Zoo And Orange Cat In Grass

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

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Giraffes Roaming At Zoo And Orange Cat In Grass — Clip Details

LINCOLN PARK ILLINOIS USA-1972: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a family outing at the zoo, featuring giraffes with their distinctive spotted patterns reaching over a railing. The scene transitions to a quiet moment with an orange tabby cat resting in green grass. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, warm color shifts, and visible grain—evoking a nostalgic 1970s family memory. The final frames show a dimly lit interior, possibly a home or vehicle, with a brief glimpse of a person's silhouette. This authentic archival clip offers a candid look at mid-century Americana, perfect for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 124349266

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 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 brief 8mm zoo animal footage and a domestic animal cutaway from a Midwestern home-movie context.
Period detail: The clip shows soft 8mm color, zoo railings, casual animal filming, and a brief dim interior that may reflect early 1970s home-movie recording habits.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes giraffes from a visitor vantage point, then shifts to a quiet orange cat and a brief interior glimpse, preserving unstaged personal footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include giraffes near a railing, a blank or overexposed frame, a dark interior with a possible person silhouette, and an orange cat in grass.
Film character: The footage carries handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, dust specks, color shift, and intermittent underexposed frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short zoo insert, animal cutaway, transition between public outing and home life, or a memory beat in a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually links a family zoo visit with a household pet moment, offering ordinary leisure and animal observation rather than a staged event.
Research note: People are flagged visible and the interior glimpse may require likeness or property review; copyright and personal rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches may include 1972 8mm zoo giraffes, Lincoln Park Illinois home movie animals, orange tabby cat in grass, and vintage family outing footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Lincoln Park or 1972 Illinois footage, then broader 1970s zoo, pets, and family outing themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Lincoln Park, Illinois 8mm frame showing giraffes by a zoo railing, with soft focus, dark gate edges, and visible film wear. — Giraffes filmed from a visitor area near a zoo railing.

Overexposed or blank 8mm frame with pale surface, dust specks, faint marks, and dark vertical film borders. — A pale transitional frame with visible film dust and gate edges.

Dim 8mm interior frame, possibly inside a home or vehicle, with a dark human-like silhouette and seat or furniture shapes. — Brief underexposed interior glimpse with a possible person silhouette.

1972 home-movie frame showing an orange cat in grass, overexposed in places with soft color and visible 8mm texture. — Orange cat resting or crouching in grass.

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