Colorado USA-1959: Kangaroo Walking in Chain-Link Zoo Enclosure

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Kangaroo Walking in Chain-Link Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a kangaroo slowly walking within a chain-link enclosure at a zoo or wildlife park in Colorado. The animal moves across a dirt ground, viewed through the diamond pattern of the fence, with a dark building and roof visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct purple tint and film grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted wildlife footage ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 124936762

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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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: Colorado, 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: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing zoo or wildlife-park cutaways with a kangaroo seen through an enclosure fence.
Period detail: The 8mm color, simple chain-link animal enclosure, and mid-century home-movie framing support the supplied 1959 Colorado context without identifying a specific zoo.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the casual visitor viewpoint of someone filming an animal encounter rather than staged wildlife behavior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a kangaroo, chain-link fence, dirt ground, dark enclosure building, roofline, doorway, posts, and small plants.
Film character: Purple-shifted color, grain, soft focus, and slight exposure variation give the scan a recognizable physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief wildlife insert, zoo visit cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within mid-century family-footage sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects public viewing of exotic animals in a fenced setting, but the footage does not identify the facility or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, though copyright status and any location-related property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Colorado 8mm zoo footage, kangaroo enclosure home movie, vintage wildlife park cutaway, and chain-link animal exhibit.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Colorado zoo or travel footage, then broader vintage animal-enclosure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A kangaroo moves inside a fenced enclosure in 1959 Colorado home-movie footage, with a dark building and roofline behind it. — Kangaroo seen through chain-link fencing inside a dirt enclosure.

The kangaroo pauses or walks slowly behind a diamond-pattern fence, with the Colorado enclosure building visible in the background. — Kangaroo near the fence line with the enclosure structure behind it.

In the 1959 Colorado zoo or wildlife-park scene, the kangaroo lowers its head near the dirt while filmed through fencing. — Kangaroo lowers its head inside the fenced dirt enclosure.

The kangaroo continues across the fenced enclosure, framed by soft purple-tinted 8mm footage and a dark background structure. — Kangaroo continues moving across the fenced enclosure.

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