Minnesota USA-1961: Elephant at Stone Building with Green Shutters

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Minnesota

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Elephant at Stone Building with Green Shutters — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures an elephant standing at the entrance of a stone building with green wooden shutters. The animal, seen from behind, slowly turns its head and trunk, revealing its large form against the dark doorway. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural sunlight on the dusty ground and the textured stone wall, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century wildlife footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 125497990

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 1028 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: mother,sioux falls, pushmobile, duluth in winter, clarence
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: duluth,minnesota
Date: 1961 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: Minnesota, 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 Minnesota archival requests needing a brief animal or zoo-style cutaway from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The stone wall, green wooden shutters, dusty threshold and 8mm color stock may show a mid-century animal enclosure or display setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor-like viewpoint as the elephant slowly shifts at the doorway, preserving an unstaged observational moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant, dark doorway, green shutters, stone wall, sunlit dirt mound, threshold edge and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, bright sunlight and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, zoo visit beat or quiet transition in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a large elephant framed by a built enclosure, suggesting public animal viewing without identifying the specific site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright and any property or animal-location concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Minnesota 8mm elephant footage, vintage zoo animal doorway, green shutter stone building, and mid-century home movie wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel animal or travel footage, then Minnesota 1961 material, then broader vintage zoo or elephant-themed archive clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing an elephant standing at the entrance of a stone building with green wooden shutters. — An elephant stands partly inside a dark doorway, framed by green shutters and a stone wall.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of an elephant at a shadowed entrance, with sunlight on the dirt foreground. — The elephant stands at the threshold, its body lit by sun against the dark interior.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing the elephant turning near a green-shuttered stone building entrance. — The elephant shifts its posture, bringing its trunk and side into clearer view at the doorway.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame with an elephant facing out from a stone building entrance with green shutters. — The elephant faces toward the camera from the shaded doorway between open green shutters.

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