Colorado-1969: Giraffe at Zoo Sticking Out Tongue at Camera

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

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Giraffe at Zoo Sticking Out Tongue at Camera — Clip Details

A close-up of a giraffe at a zoo in Colorado, 1969, captured on 8mm film. The animal looks directly into the camera, its large eyes and patterned face filling the frame. It sticks out its tongue in a playful, curious gesture, creating a humorous moment. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a vintage aesthetic typical of home movies from the era. The background reveals a simple enclosure with a patterned wall and a window. This archival clip offers a charming, nostalgic glimpse of wildlife interaction.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127492431

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: 1969 Colorado 8mm zoo footage suited for documentary, education, or editorial requests needing a brief close animal interaction with period home-movie texture.
Period detail: The simple zoo enclosure wall, small window, close handheld framing, and faded color 8mm stock may show a late-1960s visitor-filmed zoo setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the spontaneous feel of a visitor holding close on a giraffe as it leans toward the camera and sticks out its tongue.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the giraffe's patterned head and neck, tongue, large ears, sandy enclosure ground, block-pattern wall, small window, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short comic animal cutaway, zoo insert, memory beat, or light transition within a vintage wildlife or family-travel sequence.
Historical context: The frames show a mid-century zoo visitor perspective on a giraffe encounter, with the animal close to the lens rather than a staged wildlife presentation.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal footage in a zoo setting may still require copyright review and possible property or location context checks.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Colorado zoo giraffe 8mm footage, vintage giraffe tongue close-up, home movie zoo animal, and funny giraffe face archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Colorado zoo footage, then other 1969 Colorado material, then broader vintage zoo animals or humorous wildlife home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a giraffe close to the camera, with its patterned head, ears, and neck filling most of the view. — A giraffe leans close to the lens in a zoo enclosure.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame of a giraffe looking toward the camera, its face and neck close against a simple zoo enclosure background. — The giraffe looks toward the camera from close range.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a close giraffe with its tongue extended, filmed from a visitor's handheld viewpoint at a zoo. — The giraffe extends its tongue in a playful close-up moment.

The giraffe turns its head close to the camera near the end of the clip.

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