California USA-1969: Peacock Spreads Tail in Full Display

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

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Peacock Spreads Tail in Full Display — Clip Details

A vibrant peacock displays its magnificent tail feathers in full fan, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The bird's iridescent blue neck contrasts with its expansive train of green and blue feathers, each tipped with distinct eye-like patterns. Shot in California, the footage shows the peacock standing still, its tail fully spread in a stunning natural display. The image has a soft, grainy quality typical of vintage home movies, with natural lighting and a dark background that emphasizes the bird's vivid colors. This archival clip captures a moment of wild beauty from the late 1960s.

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: 123047325

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s California nature, zoo, garden, or home-movie sequences needing a brief color insert of a peacock displaying its train.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the soft 8mm color, grain, and contact-print framing rather than identifiable buildings, clothing, or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or family-film observation, holding on the peacock's display without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock, a wide fan of green-blue tail feathers, eye-like feather markings, a blue neck and chest, pale legs, ground, and a dark backdrop.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld 8mm texture that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, color-rich transition, nature insert, or memory beat within a 1960s California sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a peacock display as seen through a home-movie lens, offering a small-scale record of animal observation in a late-1960s setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location access, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 8mm peacock display, California home movie bird footage, vintage peacock tail fan, and 1960s wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel animal or garden footage, then California 1969 material, then broader vintage bird and wildlife display clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 California 8mm frame showing a peacock facing forward with a broad green-blue tail fan and blue body. — Peacock holds a wide tail display against a dark background.

1969 California home-movie frame with a peacock centered before its green-blue fan of eye-marked feathers. — The peacock remains nearly centered as the tail fan fills the frame.

Soft 8mm view of a peacock beneath a dense fan of green-blue eye-marked tail feathers in California, 1969. — A closer view emphasizes the feather pattern behind the bird.

1969 California 8mm frame of a peacock in full display, with blue body below a wide patterned green tail fan. — The final frame keeps the bird beneath the broad fan of feathers.

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