San Francisco California-1963: Herd of Elk Grazing in Field

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Herd of Elk Grazing in Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a herd of elk grazing and moving across a sun-drenched field in an unknown location. The footage shows the animals in a natural setting with dry grass, scattered trees, and a dark forested backdrop. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, observing the herd as they move from left to right across the frame. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in a serene, pastoral landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124935574

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 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 Francisco, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm wildlife footage useful for documentary cutaways, nature-history inserts, or pastoral memory sequences needing elk in open grassland.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s color home-movie wildlife viewing, with no visible buildings, signage, vehicles, or clothing to confirm a more specific setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the herd from a distant, mostly static home-movie viewpoint, preserving an unstaged moment of animals grazing and moving across the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a herd of elk, dry grass, a green strip of vegetation, scattered trees, a dark wooded background, and soft film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and slight frame-edge darkness that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, quiet transition, rural establishing insert, or brief memory beat between travel or nature sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents mid-century amateur wildlife filming and shows elk in a dry open field without visible human infrastructure or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property or wildlife-management context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960s 8mm elk herd footage, vintage home movie wildlife, grazing elk in field, and archival California nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with 1963 San Francisco or California footage, and then with broader vintage wildlife or pastoral landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 8mm home-movie frame showing elk crossing and grazing in a dry field with a darker wooded backdrop. — A herd of elk moves through a sunlit dry field near scattered trees.

Distant 1963 wildlife frame with elk grazing and moving across a dry field, seen through soft 8mm color footage. — Elk gather in a loose line across the field, with trees visible on the right.

Soft 8mm frame of elk clustered low in a dry field, with grass in the foreground and trees beyond. — Several elk rest or graze together in the dry grassland.

1963 home-movie frame showing a line of elk in dry grass, with green brush and trees in the background. — The herd remains in view as elk stand and graze along the field edge.

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