New Mexico USA-1973: Ducks Swimming In Water One Different

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNew Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 New Mexico

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Ducks Swimming In Water One Different — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, showing a mother duck leading her ducklings in a single file line across a calm pond. The scene is captured in classic Super 8 film with a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture, characteristic of 1970s home movies. The ducks swim smoothly across the water, with a grassy shoreline and distant structures visible in the background. The footage offers a nostalgic, candid glimpse of wildlife in a suburban or rural setting, preserved in authentic retro film 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: 120962879

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 1381 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new mexico, calsbad,santa fe,taos
Date: 1973 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: New Mexico, 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: This 1973 New Mexico 8mm clip can support archival requests for 1970s home-movie wildlife, pond life, suburban nature, or quiet animal cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show a small pond, grassy bank, distant low structures, and the purple color shift typical of aged amateur 8mm film, while no precise landmark is identifiable.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie observation of ducks moving across water, with the camera lingering on a simple outdoor moment rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark adult duck or waterfowl, several lighter ducklings in single file, rippled pond water, a grassy shoreline, shrubs, distant low buildings, and vertical film-frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and a pronounced purple-blue cast that reads as authentic 1970s small-gauge film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, reflective transition, calm domestic-memory beat, or visual contrast between an adult bird and trailing young.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it records everyday attention to local wildlife in a New Mexico outdoor setting without making broader claims about the specific site or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright clearance and any property-location questions should be checked separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 New Mexico 8mm ducks, 1970s home movie pond wildlife, Super 8 ducklings swimming, and vintage family-film waterfowl cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New Mexico 1973 home-movie outdoor footage, and then with broader 1970s wildlife, pond, and animal-family material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 New Mexico home-movie footage, an adult duck or waterfowl leads several ducklings across rippled pond water with grass, shrubs, and distant structures behind them. — Duck with ducklings crossing a pond.

The adult bird remains ahead of a small line of ducklings on calm pond water, with the New Mexico outdoor shoreline and distant building edges visible in soft 8mm color. — Adult bird leading ducklings on the water.

A home-movie frame shows the adult duck or waterfowl and ducklings continuing across the pond below a grassy bank, with shrubs and a low background structure softened by aged film color. — Ducklings following across the pond.

A closer 1973 New Mexico 8mm frame shows a dark duck or waterfowl facing the camera on rippled pond water, with a pale face area and red markings visible near the beak. — Close view of the adult waterfowl.

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