California USA-1969: An Alert Peacock Bird Looking Around

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 California

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An Alert Peacock Bird Looking Around — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a peacock in a grassy enclosure, its iridescent blue-green neck feathers and alert expression clearly visible through a wire fence. The bird turns its head, scanning its surroundings with curiosity, while the lush green lawn and natural daylight create a serene, nostalgic atmosphere. This authentic archival footage offers a glimpse into a quiet moment at a California farm or zoo, showcasing the beauty of wildlife in a classic home movie style.

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: 123047263

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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: California, 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: 1969 California 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational requests needing a brief wildlife, farm, zoo, or outdoor animal cutaway.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and fenced grassy animal enclosure, which may show a casual California farm or zoo visit in the late 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective as the camera watches a peacock turn its head and remain alert behind wire fencing.
What appears in frame: A peacock with blue-green neck feathers, wire mesh, green grass, shadows, dark frame edges, and enclosure posts are visible across the sampled frames.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, slight softness, saturated greens, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edges that read as authentic 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, quiet transition, observational cutaway, or memory beat within a broader California travel or family-film sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a casual mid-century home-movie interest in animals and outdoor leisure without identifying a specific facility or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location and property context should still be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 California 8mm peacock footage, vintage home movie bird enclosure, and 1960s zoo or farm animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 California outdoor footage, then broader vintage animal, farm, zoo, or wildlife themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A peacock with blue-green neck feathers stands in a grassy fenced enclosure in 1969 California 8mm home-movie footage. — Peacock pauses behind a wire fence in a grassy enclosure.

Peacock turns its head inside the fenced grassy area.

A front-facing peacock is filmed through wire mesh in a grassy enclosure, consistent with the 1969 California home-movie metadata. — The bird faces the camera through the fence.

The peacock appears darker and partly shadowed behind the enclosure wire as the 8mm frame ends on green grass. — A shadowed peacock remains alert behind the enclosure wire.

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