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Nigeria-1969: Two Pelicans Swimming Across A Body Of Water

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Two Pelicans Swimming Across A Body Of Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Nigeria in 1969 shows two large pelicans swimming across a calm body of water. The birds, with their distinctive long beaks and mottled gray-and-white plumage, glide through the deep blue water, their movements creating gentle ripples. The scene is captured through the characteristic grain and soft focus of 8mm film, with a dark border framing the image. In the background, a distant shoreline and faint structures are visible, adding depth to the natural setting. The footage captures a serene moment of wildlife in its environment, with the pelicans moving steadily across the frame.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122663357

Rights & Clearance

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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1969 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
Nigeria Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

  • animals
  • wild
  • nature
  • swimming
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  • archival bird footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for documentary or museum edits needing 1960s Nigeria wildlife home-movie material with large waterbirds in a calm aquatic setting.
Period detail
The visible period clues come mainly from the 8mm film texture, soft color, and metadata-supported 1969 Nigeria identification rather than from built structures or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an observational home-movie feel, with the camera holding on pelicans as they move across the water without staging or visible human direction.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include two pelicans, blue rippled water, a distant shoreline or embankment, faint background structures, dark frame borders, and soft 8mm grain.
Film character
The footage shows grainy 8mm color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and dark gate borders that give the wildlife scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, calm transition, or memory beat within material about Nigeria, travel, nature, or 1960s home movies.
Historical context
The scene visually places large waterbirds in a Nigerian waterside environment in 1969, without enough visible detail to identify a specific waterway or site.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, wildlife setting context, and any location-specific property questions still need normal review.
Research search match
Likely researcher matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm pelicans, vintage home movie waterbirds, African wildlife on water, and Super 8 style nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s wildlife, water, and travel home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two pelicans swim across blue rippled water in metadata-supported 1969 Nigeria 8mm home-movie footage.
Two pelicans move across a calm body of water with a low shoreline in the background.
Two pelicans glide on blue water in a soft 8mm frame from metadata-supported 1969 Nigeria.
Pelicans continue across the water, framed by dark edges and a distant bank.
A soft, grainy 8mm view shows two pelicans moving across blue water in Nigeria, according to clip metadata.
The pelicans pass through the frame with motion softness and visible film grain.
Two pelicans cross the rippled water near a low shoreline in metadata-supported 1969 Nigeria home-movie footage.
A final view holds on the pelicans as they swim near the far bank.

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