Colorado-1969: Camel Bends To Eat Food Thrown From Above Enclosure

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Colorado

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Camel Bends To Eat Food Thrown From Above Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a camel in a zoo enclosure in Colorado. The camel, with its distinctive hump and shaggy coat, bends down to eat food thrown from above. The footage shows the animal's head and neck in close-up, with a sandy ground surface visible. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to its nostalgic, archival feel. This candid moment offers a glimpse into mid-century zoo life and animal care.

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: 127492362

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 1316 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: black mar fire,flood,hippies,summer
Reel-level year note: 1968-1969
Reel-level location note: boulder colorado
Date: 1969 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: Colorado, 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 U.S. zoo or animal-captivity edits needing a brief home-movie cutaway of a camel feeding in an enclosure.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and faded palette support a late-1960s home-movie reading, with Colorado supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from above the enclosure, watching the camel bend toward food rather than presenting a staged animal display.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a camel's head and neck, shaggy coat, single hump, sandy enclosure ground, hooves, film gate edges, and contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: The footage shows coarse grain, soft focus, color fading, vertical scratches, and handheld 8mm framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, insert, or memory beat for zoo visits, animal care, captivity, or mid-century family travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor's view of a zoo animal in an enclosed sandy space, without visible keepers, signage, crowds, or identifiable facility details.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signage are visible, but copyright and any location or animal-facility permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Colorado 8mm zoo camel, vintage home movie camel feeding, Super 8 animal enclosure, and 1960s zoo visit footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Colorado 1969 zoo or travel footage, then broader vintage animal-enclosure and zoo-visit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a camel from above as its neck extends downward inside a sandy zoo enclosure. — The camel lowers its long neck toward the enclosure floor.

1969 Colorado home-movie frame of a camel looking upward from a sandy zoo enclosure, with hump and shaggy coat visible. — The camel turns its head upward inside the enclosure.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing the camel bending down, its long neck and front legs visible against sandy ground. — The camel bends down toward food on the ground.

The camel pauses with its head angled left in the enclosure.

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