Saint Louis Missouri-1964: A Giraffe Walking In The Zoo And Entering A Cave

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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A Giraffe Walking In The Zoo And Entering A Cave — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a giraffe walking through its zoo enclosure in Saint Louis, Missouri. The animal moves across a grassy area bordered by large rock formations and leafy trees under a clear blue sky. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a home projector, shows the giraffe approaching and entering a rocky cave-like structure. The warm color palette and film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel, offering authentic archival footage of zoo life from the 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: 127732310

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: Useful for 1960s documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing authentic home-movie footage of a zoo giraffe in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Period detail: The 8mm frame edges, saturated color, zoo rockwork, and visitor viewpoint support a mid-1960s home-movie reading, with the 1964 date supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective as the camera follows a giraffe moving through its enclosure toward a rocky shelter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a giraffe, grassy enclosure, artificial rock formations, a dark wall or barrier, leafy trees, blue sky, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, saturated color, and projector-like frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief animal cutaway, zoo-life insert, family-memory transition, or 1960s leisure-context beat.
Historical context: The scene shows a public zoo enclosure filmed from a visitor area, offering visual context for mid-century recreational animal viewing without identifying individual visitors.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any zoo or location-related property considerations for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 8mm zoo footage, Saint Louis Missouri giraffe, vintage home movie animal enclosure, and 1960s zoo cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel zoo material, then other 1964 Saint Louis footage, then broader 1960s animal or family-outing home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Saint Louis zoo home-movie frame showing a giraffe walking beside rockwork under a blue sky. — A giraffe moves along the grass in front of rock formations and trees.

1964 Saint Louis zoo frame with a giraffe near a dark enclosure wall, rocks, trees, and 8mm film borders. — The giraffe pauses near the rockwork and low enclosure wall.

1964 Saint Louis zoo frame showing a giraffe near a cave-like rock opening in a grassy enclosure. — The giraffe bends near the rocky shelter entrance in the zoo enclosure.

1964 Saint Louis zoo frame showing the rocky enclosure after the giraffe has moved into or behind the cave-like shelter. — The frame holds on the rockwork, grass, trees, and cave-like shelter area.

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