Grand Teton Wyoming USA-1980: White Swan and Ducks on Pond with Lily Pads

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationGrand Teton, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 Grand Teton Wyoming

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White Swan and Ducks on Pond with Lily Pads — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Grand Teton Wyoming USA in 1980 captures a serene pond scene. A white swan glides gracefully across the water, accompanied by several ducks, including a smaller brown duck swimming nearby. The tranquil setting features lush green lily pads in the foreground and a dense treeline with evergreen trees in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and subtle grain, viewed through a dark frame border. The scene evokes a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of a summer day in the American West.

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: 122863542

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1980 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: Grand Teton, Wyoming, United States 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: Useful for 1980s nature, travel, or memory sequences needing quiet home-movie footage of water birds in a pond setting in Grand Teton, Wyoming.
Period detail: The scene shows 8mm-era color home-movie framing, soft focus, and a contact-print border, with no visible signs, vehicles, clothing, or buildings to date the setting beyond the supplied 1980 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot feel, observing swans and ducks from a distance across lily pads and open water without narration, people, or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white swan, several ducks, pale pond water, lily pads in the foreground, reeds or brush, evergreen trees, distant shoreline, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries physical 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure shifts, saturated greens and blues, and slight handheld or telephoto instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nature cutaway, travel insert, reflective transition, or memory beat within a broader Grand Teton or American West home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a leisure or nature-viewing moment in a wetland-like pond environment, showing wildlife and vegetation rather than built tourist infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1980 8mm Grand Teton pond wildlife, white swan and ducks home movie, Wyoming lake birds, lily pads vintage footage, and Super 8 nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1980 Grand Teton material, then broader Wyoming water, birdlife, pond, lake, and quiet nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Grand Teton home-movie frame showing a white swan and several ducks on a pond bordered by lily pads, brush, and evergreen trees. — A white swan and ducks rest or swim in shallow pond water behind a foreground of lily pads.

1980 Grand Teton frame with a white swan, ducks, pale pond water, lily pads, and a soft green shoreline in the background. — The swan remains near the center of the pond while ducks swim nearby across the open water.

1980 Grand Teton 8mm frame showing a swan and ducks in a pond, with broad lily pads in the foreground and a wooded shoreline beyond. — Ducks and a swan occupy the pond as the camera looks past dense lily pads toward the treeline.

1980 Grand Teton home-movie frame with a white swan gliding across darker rippled pond water and a smaller bird swimming behind it. — A white swan glides through darker water while a smaller bird moves in the background.

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