Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: A Tiger Moving in a Zoo Cage

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

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A Tiger Moving in a Zoo Cage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dimly lit zoo enclosure in Cheyenne County, Kansas. A large animal, likely a tiger, moves slowly behind dark metal bars, its silhouette visible against a stone wall. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, deep shadows, and a purple-blue color cast, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The animal's slow pacing and the confined space create a somber, contemplative mood, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century zoo life.

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: 125880924

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 editorial or documentary requests needing visitor-shot zoo animal footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century zoo enclosure with dark metal bars, stone-textured walls, and dim visitor-area lighting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual visitor-shot perspective, holding on the animal as it moves behind the cage bars rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large striped animal form, black cage bars, stone enclosure walls, bright window-like openings, deep shadows, and blue-purple film cast.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries dense grain, low exposure, soft focus, handheld framing, and color shift that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, somber cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century zoo, captivity, or animal-display sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a zoo animal seen through confinement bars, reflecting a visitor's brief look at animal display conditions of the period.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but animal identification, location claims, and any property permissions should be verified separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm zoo cage footage, tiger behind bars, Kansas home movie zoo animal, and vintage animal enclosure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent clips from the same reel, then with Cheyenne County Kansas 1958 footage, then with other vintage zoo or captive wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Kansas 8mm frame showing a dim zoo enclosure with a large likely tiger shape partly obscured by metal bars. — A large animal is barely visible in the shadowed cage at the start of the clip.

Dim 1958 zoo footage from Kansas shows metal bars, stone enclosure walls, and a dark animal silhouette near bright backlight. — The animal moves deeper in shadow behind the enclosure bars.

A shadowed zoo enclosure in the 1958 Kansas home movie shows heavy bars, stone walls, and bright vertical light beyond the cage. — Bars and backlight dominate the frame as the animal becomes harder to distinguish.

The closing 1958 Kansas frame shows a dark likely tiger silhouette behind bars beside a bright stone wall inside the zoo enclosure. — The animal remains mostly in silhouette as it passes behind the bars.

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