Colorado-1969: A Grey Rhino Walking Leisurely In His Pen In The Mud

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

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A Grey Rhino Walking Leisurely In His Pen In The Mud — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a gray rhinoceros walking slowly through its enclosure. The animal moves leisurely across a muddy pen, its thick hide and prominent horn visible under dim, purplish lighting. The footage shows a quiet moment at what appears to be a zoo or wildlife park, with a decorative wall emblem in the background. The grainy texture and vertical film lines are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 127492770

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 animal footage suited for documentary cutaways, zoo or wildlife-park context, and archival sequences needing a quiet rhinoceros enclosure moment.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-1960s visitor-shot zoo setting, with dim enclosure lighting, plain walls, a decorative emblem, and the soft color cast of home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a visitor pausing on a rhinoceros rather than staged animal behavior, with the camera holding on the animal's slow movement.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a gray rhinoceros, muddy ground, enclosure walls, a decorative wall emblem, dark frame borders, vertical film lines, and purplish indoor light.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, vertical scratches, and dark gate edges that give the scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an animal cutaway, zoo insert, pacing break, or memory beat within a broader 1960s home-movie or wildlife-park sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a rhinoceros seen in captivity through a home-movie lens, suggesting leisure travel or zoo visitation without identifying the facility.
Research note: No people, faces, readable brands, or audible music are indicated, but animal-facility property context and underlying copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Colorado 8mm rhinoceros, vintage zoo rhino footage, gray rhino walking in pen, and home movie wildlife park animal.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Colorado animal or zoo scenes, then broader vintage captive-wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a distant landscape through dark gate edges, with vertical film lines and a pale horizon. — A distant landscape appears briefly before the rhinoceros enclosure shots.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame of a gray rhinoceros moving beside an enclosure wall, with a decorative emblem above and film scratches visible. — The rhinoceros walks along the back wall of its enclosure.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing the gray rhinoceros with its head lowered in a muddy enclosure, framed by dark gate edges and scratches. — The rhinoceros lowers its head as it moves across the muddy pen.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame of the gray rhinoceros continuing through the muddy pen, with its horn and thick hide visible under dim light. — The rhinoceros continues its slow walk through the enclosure.

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