California-1961: Going To The Zoo Seeing Some Animals Like Flamingo And Raccoon

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Going To The Zoo Seeing Some Animals Like Flamingo And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a family outing to a California zoo. A young boy in a red jacket observes a raccoon in a wire cage, followed by scenes of pink flamingos wading in a pool surrounded by lush greenery. A man in a light-colored suit watches the birds from behind a railing. The footage features the characteristic grain, color shifts, and soft focus of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American family vacation.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127408328

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
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: California, 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 California zoo visit coverage, especially documentary or educational edits needing brief home-movie views of visitors and captive birds.
Period detail: The light suit, simple railings, wire enclosure, and faded 8mm color may show an early-1960s public zoo setting in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, watching an animal in a cage and then lingering on flamingos and a suited adult behind the railing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wire animal enclosure, a dark-and-light animal shape, pink flamingos, a shallow pool, railings, greenery, and an adult man in a suit.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, handheld framing, and blue-magenta color drift typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, family outing insert, zoo transition, or memory beat between broader California travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-century recreational zoo-going through a family camera, with animals viewed from public barriers rather than staged presentation.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, animal-display context, and location identification should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 California zoo home movie, 8mm flamingos, vintage zoo animals, mid-century family outing, and archival public attraction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family travel footage, then other California 1961 zoo scenes, then broader vintage animal or public attraction material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A caged animal appears behind vertical and horizontal wire bars in 1961 California zoo home-movie footage. — Animal seen through the wire of a zoo enclosure.

A suited adult visitor watches a flamingo near a railing in California zoo footage from the 1961 home movie. — Visitor watches a flamingo from behind a zoo railing.

Pink flamingos gather in a shallow pool, filmed with soft 8mm focus during a California zoo visit. — Flamingos wade together in the zoo pool.

Flamingos wade near the edge of a pool, with dark zoo enclosure surfaces and soft home-movie color shifts. — Flamingos near the pool edge inside the zoo exhibit.

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