Switzerland-1964: Baby Elephant Steps Down Into a Ring Before Crowded Stone Terraces

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 · Switzerland
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

animal performance
children's zoo
family outing
1960s leisure
audience and spectacle
European travel

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · zoom · pan
Setting: outdoor · Open-air animal ring with a gravel rim and dark floor, surrounded by tiered stone terrace seating, with a gabled house and trees behind
Time and weather: daytime · summer · overcast or hazy, dry
Lighting: soft natural daylight with flat shadows
People: 60 · A large audience of men, women and many children seated and standing on stone terraces; women in floral print dresses and headscarves, men in jackets or white shirts, boys in shorts; men in white shirts walk along the ring edge
Animals: baby elephant
Objects: stone terrace seating · gravel rim · ring wall · handbags · gabled house · trees
Colors: grey · dark green · lavender · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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A baby elephant walks along the gravel rim as men in white shirts pass behind it.
The calf nears the edge of the ring below rows of seated families.
The camera reframes closer on the elephant and the front rows of spectators.
The elephant climbs down off the raised edge onto the dark ring floor.
The calf walks across the ring floor as the framing widens slightly.

Baby Elephant Steps Down Into a Ring Before Crowded... — Clip Details

In Switzerland, circa 1964, home movie footage shows a baby elephant walking along the gravel rim of an open-air ring in front of stone terraces packed with spectators. Men in white shirts walk past behind it while families, many with young children, watch from the steps. The calf then climbs down off the raised edge onto the dark ring floor and moves away across it. The scene is filmed handheld in one continuous colour 8mm shot that reframes closer at about 1.5 seconds and widens slightly at the end.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001658

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 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: Switzerland 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for 1960s footage of zoo or circus audiences and young elephants on show, for documentaries on animal entertainment, family leisure or postwar European tourism.
Period detail: Full-skirted floral dresses, headscarves, men's suit jackets and boys' shorts with white knee socks fit mid-1960s Central European dress, and the colour rendition may show the look of that era's reversal stock.
Home-movie behavior: Shot by a visitor from the crowd, the clip catches families settling on the steps, a boy hopping down a terrace and keepers walking by, without any staged attention to the camera.
What appears in frame: A baby elephant on the ring's gravel rim, rows of spectators on stone terraces, men in white shirts walking past, a woman in a blue floral dress, a boy in white shorts, and a gabled house behind the trees.
Film character: Handheld colour 8mm with heavy grain, soft focus, a lavender cast in the sky and deep shadows on the ring floor, giving the projected small-gauge film a warm archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a short cutaway or memory beat in an animal or family-outing sequence, or as an establishing insert before closer shots of circus acts.
Historical context: Outdoor rings with tiered seating let large family audiences watch young animals up close, and this crowd shows what a popular children's zoo outing looked like in mid-1960s Switzerland.
Research note: Copyright in the film itself is separate from the likeness of the many identifiable adults and children shown; the venue's private grounds and the unnamed site may also call for property and identification checks before commercial use.
Research search match: baby elephant circus ring 1960s, Swiss children's zoo home movie, crowd on stone terraces vintage 8mm, families watching elephant show
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's other zoo clips such as visitors feeding a sea lion and a woman feeding an eland, then with other Swiss circus ring footage from about 1964, then with 1960s family zoo outings generally.

Still Frames From This Clip

Baby elephant walking the rim of an open-air ring before a crowded stone terrace, Switzerland, circa 1964 — A baby elephant walks along the ring edge as families watch from the stone terraces, Switzerland, circa 1964.
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Elephant calf nearing the ring edge as a keeper walks past seated families, Swiss children's zoo, circa 1964 — The calf nears the edge of the ring while a keeper and boys walk past the front row.
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Baby elephant climbing down into the ring in front of 1960s families on stone steps, Switzerland, circa 1964 — Closer framing as the baby elephant climbs down off the raised edge onto the ring floor.
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Elephant calf crossing a dark ring floor before a terraced audience at a children's zoo, Switzerland, circa 1964 — The elephant crosses the ring floor below rows of watching spectators.
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