Chicago Illinois-1972: In A Zoo Couple Of Elephants Moving Around The Cage

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Chicago Illinois

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In A Zoo Couple Of Elephants Moving Around The Cage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a pair of elephants in a zoo enclosure. A large Asian elephant with prominent tusks stands in the foreground, while a second, darker elephant moves behind it. The scene unfolds in a simple indoor habitat with concrete walls and a metal railing, viewed through a darkened frame suggesting a home projector. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic 1970s family memory.

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: 125873616

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 1405 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: planes,lake geneva,colby,brookfield zoo,shrman,lincoln park
Reel-level year note: 1972
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1972 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 1970s editorial or documentary requests needing visitor-shot zoo footage of elephants in an indoor enclosure.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s zoo display conditions, with concrete walls, a simple rail barrier, and warm 8mm color supporting the stated 1972 home-movie date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, observing the animals from behind a barrier with slight handheld framing and no visible performers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two elephants, long tusks, a concrete zoo wall, a doorway, straw-covered ground, a metal railing, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, warm faded color, mild exposure variation, and handheld movement that give the short scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as an animal cutaway, zoo memory beat, transition insert, or brief visual reference to 1970s family travel footage.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for zoo animal viewing from a public visitor area without making specific claims about the institution or enclosure history.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are evident, but copyright, archive license terms, and zoo property or animal-display context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 Chicago zoo elephants, 1970s 8mm zoo footage, vintage home movie elephants, and indoor elephant enclosure archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo scenes, then other Chicago 1972 footage, then broader vintage zoo or elephant home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Chicago 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant in front and a darker elephant behind it inside a concrete zoo enclosure. — A tusked elephant stands near a rail while another elephant moves behind it in the enclosure.

Visitor-shot 1972 Chicago zoo footage frame with a tusked elephant in the foreground and a second elephant near the rear wall. — The foreground elephant faces forward as the second elephant remains partly hidden near the doorway.

Soft 8mm frame from a 1972 Chicago zoo visit, showing two elephants in a concrete enclosure behind a visitor rail. — The elephants remain close together, framed through the dark edge of the film scan.

1972 Chicago 8mm frame showing the tusked elephant beside a darker elephant near an open doorway and metal rail. — The darker elephant shifts near the doorway while the tusked elephant stays in the foreground.

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