San Diego County California-1968: Dolphin Performing in Pool at Zoo

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 San Diego California

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Dolphin Performing in Pool at Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dolphin performing in a large pool at a zoo in San Diego County, California. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows the dolphin leaping and swimming as a small audience watches from the edge. The scene has a nostalgic, archival quality with visible film scratches and a soft, faded color palette typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the animal's movements in the water.

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: 124630545

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 1333 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: #1
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1968 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: San Diego, California, 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 1960s California zoo or marine-animal show requests needing brief home-movie audience perspective and dolphin performance coverage.
Period detail: The faded 8mm color, poolside seating, and casual visitor framing support a late-1960s home-movie view of a zoo dolphin show in San Diego County.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, with the camera watching from the audience area as a dolphin moves through the pool.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large show pool, pale water, a dolphin surfacing or leaping, poolside spectators, bleachers or barriers, and soft film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has bleached color, soft focus, visible grain, exposure bloom, and scratches that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for zoo visits, marine-animal shows, family recreation, or Southern California leisure.
Historical context: The scene documents public spectatorship around a trained dolphin performance without supporting claims about the specific venue beyond the provided San Diego County zoo metadata.
Research note: People appear in the audience and one head is close to camera, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright or location permissions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 San Diego County zoo dolphin show, vintage 8mm dolphin performance, audience watching marine animal act, and California home movie zoo footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1968 San Diego County zoo clips, then broader 1960s aquarium, dolphin, animal show, or family recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 San Diego County home-movie frame showing a dolphin performance pool with distant spectators and bleached 8mm color. — A dolphin show is seen across a washed-out pool from the audience side.

Faded 1968 San Diego County zoo footage frame with a dolphin in the pool and spectators along the far side. — The dolphin remains visible in the pool as the audience watches from across the water.

A soft, overexposed 8mm frame of the San Diego County dolphin performance area, with water, barriers, and distant audience figures. — Poolside barriers and pale water frame the distant dolphin performance area.

1968 San Diego County zoo home-movie frame from behind a spectator watching the dolphin pool, with scratched, faded 8mm texture. — A spectator is filmed from behind while watching the dolphin show pool.

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