Colorado-1969: Baby Giraffe Lying Down Inside Zoo Enclosure

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

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Baby Giraffe Lying Down Inside Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

A young giraffe lies calmly on sandy ground inside an enclosure at a Colorado zoo in 1969. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the baby giraffe resting with its legs folded beneath it, its long neck raised slightly as it looks around. The setting features a patterned wall and a building in the background, with natural daylight illuminating the scene. The grainy, color-graded quality of the Super 8 film adds a nostalgic, archival feel. This vintage home movie clip offers a rare glimpse of a giraffe calf in a zoo environment during the late 1960s.

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: 127492504

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 archival requests needing a quiet zoo animal cutaway, especially documentary or educational edits about captive wildlife, childhood visits, or home-movie travel in Colorado.
Period detail: The 1969 date is supported by metadata, while the visible scene shows a simple sandy zoo enclosure, patterned wall, and muted 8mm color typical of amateur late-1960s filming.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot quality, observing a resting baby giraffe from a distance without staging, narration, or interaction visible in the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young giraffe lying on sandy ground, folded legs, a raised neck, enclosure walls, a patterned backdrop, a building edge, film gate borders, and vertical scan marks.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, contact-sheet framing, and color fading that help identify it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm animal insert, zoo cutaway, transition between family-trip scenes, or reflective memory beat in a 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a zoo visitor's view of a giraffe calf in an enclosed habitat, offering visual context for how animal exhibits appeared in a late-1960s amateur travel film.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright ownership and any zoo or property considerations separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Colorado zoo home movie, baby giraffe resting in enclosure, vintage 8mm zoo animals, and 1960s captive wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Colorado 1969 zoo material, then broader 1960s home-movie animal or wildlife-park clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A young giraffe rests with its legs folded on sandy ground inside a Colorado zoo enclosure in 1969. — Baby giraffe resting on the enclosure floor, seen from a distant visitor viewpoint.

The giraffe calf sits upright on sandy ground, with enclosure walls and a patterned background visible in the 1969 Colorado zoo footage. — Resting giraffe calf framed against the sandy zoo enclosure and background wall.

A closer 8mm view shows the baby giraffe lying calmly in the Colorado zoo enclosure, its neck raised and body turned slightly sideways. — Closer frame of the giraffe calf lying down with its head upright.

The giraffe calf remains seated on the sandy enclosure floor, seen in soft 8mm color with no people or signage visible. — The young giraffe stays resting in the enclosure as the camera holds from a distance.

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