Colorado USA-1959: Alpacas Grazing in Enclosure

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Alpacas Grazing in Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a peaceful scene at a Colorado zoo or farm. Several alpacas, including a prominent light-colored adult and a small cria, graze and stand in a grassy enclosure bordered by a wooden fence and trees. A shallow water feature is visible in the foreground, with the animals calmly looking around their habitat. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality characteristic of mid-century home movies.

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: 124936773

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing a brief animal-enclosure cutaway, zoo or farm atmosphere, or calm mid-century family-travel texture.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1959 Colorado zoo or farm enclosure with wooden fencing, mature trees, grass, and a simple water edge rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of visitor-shot home-movie observation, holding on grazing alpacas as they stand and look around without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include alpacas, a small young animal, grass, trees, wooden fencing, shade, a shallow water feature, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm color grain, soft focus, slight fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or quiet memory beat for animal parks, family travel, Colorado footage, or vintage outdoor recreation.
Historical context: The scene offers modest visual context for mid-century leisure filming around captive animals, with emphasis on habitat details rather than a named institution.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and any property or animal-facility identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Colorado 8mm alpacas, vintage zoo animal enclosure, home movie farm animals, and mid-century outdoor animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1959 Colorado material, then broader vintage zoo, farm, and grazing animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado home-movie frame showing alpacas in a shaded grassy enclosure, with one light-colored animal near a shallow water edge. — Alpacas stand and graze beside a water feature in a fenced outdoor enclosure.

A light-colored alpaca stands beside a darker alpaca in a Colorado animal enclosure, with grass, trees, and fencing in the background. — Two alpacas pause near the edge of a shallow water feature inside the enclosure.

Vintage 8mm frame from Colorado showing alpacas gathered near water and trees, with a fenced grassy enclosure behind them. — Alpacas gather near shade and water in the fenced outdoor habitat.

A light alpaca stands in profile as other animals move through the shaded enclosure.

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