Saint Louis Missouri-1964: Animals Grazing In Zoo Enclosure

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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Animals Grazing In Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched zoo enclosure in Saint Louis, Missouri. A goat grazes on the sandy ground while other animals, including deer, stand in the background near a stone wall. The footage shows natural daylight with deep shadows and the characteristic grain and color shifts of Super 8 film. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting a home projector screen, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1960s wildlife footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127732261

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 1616 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1961-1964
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1964 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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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: 1960s 8mm zoo animal cutaway for documentary, education, or archive edits needing visitor-shot footage of grazing animals in an outdoor enclosure.
Period detail: The frames show an open zoo paddock, stone barriers, mature trees, and 8mm color home-movie framing consistent with the supplied 1964 Saint Louis metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the casual pacing of a visitor filming animals from outside an enclosure, holding on grazing and standing animals rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include goats or similar hoofed animals, sandy ground, stone enclosure walls, trees, deep shade, blue sky, and dark projector-like frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, saturated greens and blues, and dark edge framing that mark it as scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short zoo insert, animal cutaway, mid-century family-memory beat, or transition within a broader 1960s travel or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a mid-century zoo visit through an amateur camera, showing animals in an open-air enclosure without making claims about species, institution design, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property considerations separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 Saint Louis zoo footage, 1960s 8mm home movie animals, vintage zoo enclosure, and goats grazing in archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Saint Louis material, then broader 1960s zoo, animal, travel, or family-outing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Saint Louis zoo footage showing a small hoofed animal grazing near a low stone wall under trees. — A grazing animal stands in a sunlit zoo enclosure with trees and a stone barrier behind it.

A small hoofed animal grazes in a bright Saint Louis zoo enclosure, with trees and shadowed film edges visible. — The animal continues grazing near the back wall of the enclosure.

Several hoofed animals stand across a sandy Saint Louis zoo enclosure, with stone walls, trees, and blue sky behind them. — Multiple animals are visible across the enclosure, including one standing in the foreground.

1964 Saint Louis zoo footage shows hoofed animals standing in a sunlit enclosure bordered by trees and stone walls. — Animals stand in the open enclosure as the camera holds from a visitor viewpoint.

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