Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Couple Of Tigers Moving Around The Cage

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationCheyenne, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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Couple Of Tigers Moving Around The Cage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dark, shadowy figure moving behind a chain-link fence at a zoo in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The grainy, low-light footage shows a large animal, likely a tiger, pacing within its enclosure. The scene is framed by the diamond pattern of the fence, with muted purples and blues dominating the color palette. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking mid-century Americana and the era's home movie aesthetic.

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: 125880852

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Cheyenne, Kansas, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s documentary or educational requests needing visitor-shot zoo animal footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The chain-link enclosure, muted color film, and handheld framing may show a mid-century zoo visit, supported by the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor's observational viewpoint, watching large cats move behind fencing without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include chain-link fencing, vertical cage posts, dark large cats, concrete flooring, enclosure shadows, and bluish-purple film color.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy grain, low exposure, soft focus, and handheld instability that create a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for zoo visits, animal captivity, or 1950s leisure scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects a casual zoo viewing experience, with animals seen through barriers from a public-facing visitor position.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal enclosure and location context should still be reviewed for copyright and property concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 8mm zoo footage, tigers behind chain-link fence, Kansas home movie animal enclosure, or mid-century zoo visit may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Cheyenne County Kansas 1958 material, then other vintage zoo or captive-wildlife home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark large cat appears behind chain-link fencing in 1958 8mm zoo footage from Cheyenne County, Kansas. — A large cat moves in shadow behind a chain-link zoo fence.

A large cat is partly hidden by chain-link fencing and vertical posts in the Kansas zoo enclosure footage. — The animal is partially obscured by the fence and low exposure.

A shadowed large cat stands close to the chain-link barrier in the 1958 home-movie zoo scene. — The large cat comes closer to the fence in a dark, grainy frame.

A dark large cat stands at the right edge of a chain-link zoo enclosure in the 1958 Kansas home-movie clip. — A large cat is framed at the right side behind the enclosure fence.

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