Washington DC-1948: Zoo Visit with Train and Zebras

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Washington DC

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Zoo Visit with Train and Zebras — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a nostalgic zoo visit in Washington DC. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows a small train carrying passengers through a tree-lined path. The camera then pans to an animal enclosure featuring zebras and other animals near rock formations. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a classic mid-century Americana feel, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127728037

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Washington, DC, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1940s Washington DC zoo home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts about leisure, family outings, urban attractions, or mid-century animal displays.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1940s zoo grounds, with a small passenger train, tree-lined paths, open animal enclosures, and rockwork visible in faded 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the visitor-shot viewpoint, with a dark frame edge and quick handheld views that feel like someone filming from a moving or obstructed position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small zoo train with passengers, paved paths, bollards, trees, open ground, giraffes, zebras or similar striped animals, and artificial rock formations.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadowing, and faded color that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short zoo-arrival insert, animal-enclosure cutaway, nostalgic transition, or memory beat within a larger Washington DC or family-travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows a public leisure setting where visitors view large animals in landscaped enclosures, reflecting mid-century home-movie documentation of zoo visits.
Research note: People appear only incidentally and indistinctly, but likeness and location review may still be needed; copyright and any zoo-property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1948 Washington DC zoo 8mm, vintage zoo train home movie, giraffes in zoo enclosure, and mid-century animal park footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Washington DC material from 1948, then with broader vintage zoo, family travel, or animal-enclosure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Washington DC zoo home-movie frame showing a small passenger train beside a tree-lined path, partly obscured by dark film edges. — A small train carries visitors along a shaded zoo path.

1948 Washington DC zoo frame showing giraffes or similar tall animals in an open enclosure near trees and artificial rock formations. — Large animals stand in a shaded enclosure near rock formations.

Washington DC zoo home-movie frame from 1948 showing striped animals and giraffes near artificial rockwork in a shaded enclosure. — Striped animals and giraffes appear near the rockwork in the zoo enclosure.

1948 Washington DC zoo footage frame with giraffes, a striped animal, trees, and artificial rocks in a wide enclosure view. — A wide view of the animal enclosure shows giraffes and a striped animal near rocks.

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