Washington DC-1948: An Elephant Walks Around A Stream Alone In The Forest

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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An Elephant Walks Around A Stream Alone In The Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures an elephant walking through a zoo enclosure in Washington DC. The footage shows the elephant moving near a rocky structure and a small stream, surrounded by trees and greenery. The image has the characteristic grain, color fading, and soft focus of mid-century amateur film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife at a historic zoo. The clip is framed by the dark borders of a film projector, enhancing its archival quality.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127728043

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 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, District Of Columbia, 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: Useful for 1940s editorial or documentary requests needing visitor-shot zoo animal footage from Washington, DC on 8mm home-movie film.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century zoo enclosure with artificial rockwork, open ground, trees, and a water feature, consistent with the 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, observing animals from a distance with casual framing and no visible people interacting with the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant, rocky enclosure walls, a stream or pond edge, trees, shrubs, open ground, dark film borders, and a second animal shape in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and projector or gate borders that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, zoo establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition within a 1940s Washington, DC sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents zoo viewing and animal display aesthetics through a home-movie lens without making claims about the institution beyond the Washington, DC metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any zoo or property-context requirements for their use.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1948 8mm Washington DC zoo elephant, vintage home movie elephant enclosure, and 1940s zoo wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Washington, DC zoo footage, then broader 1940s home-movie animal or wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Washington, DC zoo footage showing an elephant near artificial rockwork and shaded trees within a filmed 8mm frame. — An elephant stands near rockwork in a tree-lined zoo enclosure.

The elephant remains near a rocky zoo structure, with trees and open ground visible in the Washington, DC home-movie frame. — The elephant stands beside artificial rockwork in the enclosure.

A large animal, likely an elephant, rests beside a stream or pond edge in the 1948 Washington, DC zoo footage. — A large animal rests near the waterline amid trees and shrubs.

The final frame shows a large animal near water, with dense greenery and the soft color of 8mm home-movie footage. — The animal remains near the water with dense greenery behind it.

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