Maine USA-1971: Peacock with Blue Neck and Green Tail Feathers

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMaine, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Maine

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Peacock with Blue Neck and Green Tail Feathers — Clip Details

A vibrant peacock stands in a sun-dappled garden beside a wooden shed, its brilliant blue neck and iridescent green tail feathers on full display. Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures the bird in a quiet moment, its head turning slightly as it surveys its surroundings. The natural light highlights the rich colors of the plumage against green foliage and a weathered wooden structure, evoking a sense of nostalgic Americana. The footage has a soft, grainy quality typical of Super 8 home movies from the era.

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: 123063994

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 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
Date: 1971 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: Maine, 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: Useful for 1970s Maine home-movie requests needing a brief wildlife or garden cutaway with a peacock in color 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a modest 1970s outdoor garden or yard setting, with a wooden shed wall, rough ground, foliage, and a small sign-like object partly visible but unreadable.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the peacock at close range as it stands and shifts in a sun-dappled yard, preserving an unstaged home-movie encounter with an animal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue-necked peacock, green tail feathers, leafy plants, a pale wooden shed, dirt ground, rocks, shadows, and a small unreadable yellow sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, grain, high-contrast sunlight, dark edge exposure, and slight handheld framing that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, garden transition, color-memory beat, or quiet cutaway within a 1970s rural or domestic sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a peacock in a private-looking outdoor yard or garden environment without visible people, suggesting casual animal observation rather than a staged wildlife scene.
Research note: No people, faces, or readable brands are visible, but the shed and yard may raise property-context questions separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Searches such as 1971 Maine 8mm peacock, vintage home movie peacock in garden, blue peacock yard footage, or 1970s animal cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1971 Maine outdoor scenes, then related vintage home-movie animals or garden wildlife clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A blue-necked peacock stands near foliage and a wooden shed in 1971 Maine 8mm home-movie footage. — Peacock pauses beside a shed wall and garden plants.

The peacock remains near the shed and garden foliage, with its blue neck and green tail visible in the 1971 Maine footage. — Peacock stands in partial shade with tail feathers spread low behind it.

A peacock turns slightly in the garden area beside a wooden shed, filmed on 8mm in Maine in 1971. — Peacock shifts position near overgrown plants and shed siding.

Closer 1971 Maine frame of the peacock's blue head and neck among bright leaves and deep garden shadow. — Closer view of the peacock framed by leaves and shadow.

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