Pocono Wild Animal Farm Pennsylvania-1960: Two Young Visitors Hand-Feeding Spotted Fawns Under a Shade Tree

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Suits requests for circa 1960 footage of American children feeding animals at a petting farm or roadside attraction, for documentaries on family travel and leisure.

Period detail

The cool, saturated colour stock, the visitors' coats and vest, and the plain wooden pens may show a modest roadside animal farm of about 1960.

Home-movie behavior

A family camera catches an unposed moment as eager deer push in around two young visitors who are busy offering food.

What appears in frame

Two young visitors under a large tree, several spotted fawns stretching for food, a black animal at right, a park bench, a red wooden shelter in a wire pen, and a gravel path.

Film character

Projected 8mm with a blue-violet cast, deep shadow in the foreground, soft focus and fine grain give the clip a clear home-movie texture.

Edit role

Works as a short insert or memory beat inside a vacation sequence, or as a cutaway after an establishing shot of the farm's entrance sign.

Historical context

Postcards record Pocono Wild Animal Farm, opened in 1948 on Route 611 near Stroudsburg, as a place where visitors fed the animals, and this clip shows that kind of direct contact.

Research note

Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the visitors, who appear to be minors and may be recognizable, so likeness and the depicted private attraction call for their own rights review.

Research search match

Matches searches such as children feeding deer 1960s, vintage petting zoo 8mm, Pocono Wild Animal Farm home movie, and Pennsylvania roadside attraction footage.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with this reel's entrance sign, red tour truck, duck-and-goose feeding and donkey-and-llama clips, then other Pocono footage from about 1960, then wider petting-zoo material.