Chicago Illinois-1957: Raccoon Sitting On Fence Scratching Itself

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Raccoon Sitting On Fence Scratching Itself — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a raccoon perched on a fence within a chain-link enclosure. The animal, with its distinctive masked face and bushy tail, sits calmly on a horizontal rail, occasionally scratching itself. The footage, viewed through the diamond pattern of the fence, shows dappled sunlight filtering through green trees in the background. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century amateur film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of urban wildlife.

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: 124936086

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 2302 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: tw ross
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: morton illinois
Date: 1957 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: Chicago, 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 1950s urban wildlife, zoo-like enclosure, or amateur home-movie cutaways in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, soft focus, and chain-link enclosure may show mid-century visitor-shot animal footage in Chicago.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, watching a raccoon sit and scratch through fencing rather than posing a controlled scene.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a raccoon on a rail, diamond chain-link fence, sunlit foliage, a low wall, dark cables, and a pale angled panel.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, and uneven handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short animal cutaway, a quiet memory beat, or a transition within sequences about Chicago, parks, zoos, or urban wildlife.
Historical context: The frames show a raccoon inside a fenced outdoor enclosure, suggesting a public or managed animal setting without confirming the exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm raccoon footage, Chicago animal enclosure home movie, vintage wildlife behind chain-link fence, and mid-century zoo cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Chicago 1957 footage, then vintage animal, park, zoo, or urban wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Chicago 8mm frame of a raccoon perched on a rail behind diamond-pattern chain-link fencing. — Raccoon perched behind chain-link fencing in a sunlit outdoor enclosure.

Raccoon on a fence rail in a Chicago outdoor enclosure, viewed through soft 8mm chain-link foreground. — The animal stays balanced on the rail, partially framed by the fence pattern.

Soft 8mm view of the raccoon shifting along the rail behind chain-link fencing in the outdoor enclosure. — The raccoon appears near the left edge, with the enclosure rail and wall visible.

1957 Chicago home-movie frame showing the raccoon seated on a rail and scratching inside a fenced enclosure. — Raccoon seated on the rail and scratching, seen through the chain-link foreground.

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