Racine Wisconsin USA-1972: Prairie Dog Standing Alert In Rocky Field

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationRacine, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Racine Wisconsin

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Prairie Dog Standing Alert In Rocky Field — Clip Details

A young prairie dog stands alert on its hind legs in a rocky, sun-drenched field, its fur a mix of brown and gray against the pale earth. It pauses, then lowers itself to the ground, sniffing and foraging among scattered pebbles and dried vegetation. The scene, captured on 8mm film in 1972, shows natural wildlife behavior in a dry, open environment with a shallow depth of field and soft focus typical of vintage home movies. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with muted colors and slight film distortion, evoking a sense of quiet observation in a rural 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: 124349456

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Racine, Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1970s 8mm wildlife home-movie clip useful for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of a small burrowing animal in a dry, rocky outdoor enclosure or field.
Period detail: The frames show muted 8mm color, soft focus, and contact-sheet edges consistent with the supplied 1972 home-movie metadata, without visible signs that independently identify Racine.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a handheld visitor or family-film shot, watching the animal pause, stand alert, and move near stones and sparse ground cover.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small prairie-dog-like rodent, pale rocky soil, scattered pebbles, bits of dried vegetation, dark film borders, and soft overexposed highlights.
Film character: The footage carries grain, gate edges, slight color fading, and soft exposure shifts that read as authentic 8mm archival texture from a short home-movie fragment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, environmental cutaway, transition beat, or memory-texture detail within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents casual 1970s amateur filming of animal behavior, with the setting appearing dry and open but not specific enough to confirm a landmark or facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but species, location, and any property or zoo context should be verified separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Good matches include 1972 8mm prairie dog footage, vintage home movie small burrowing animal, Racine Wisconsin wildlife cutaway, and 1970s amateur animal film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Racine 1972 material, then broader 1970s 8mm wildlife or zoo-animal home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A prairie-dog-like animal stands alert on hind legs in a rocky outdoor setting in this 1972 8mm home-movie frame. — A small burrowing animal stands upright among stones and sparse ground cover.

The animal crouches low on pale rocky ground, framed by dark 8mm film borders and soft vintage color. — The small animal lowers itself near pebbles in the rocky field.

The prairie-dog-like animal remains low to the ground amid stones and pale earth, with visible film grain and contact-sheet cropping. — The animal stays close to the ground as the handheld camera frames the rocky area.

A small burrowing animal is partly visible near the bottom of the 1972 8mm frame, with branches or dried vegetation along the upper edge. — The animal is partly obscured near the lower frame as the shot drifts across pale ground.

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