Mendocino California USA-1980: Natural Show Of Swimming Pelicans On The

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationMendocino, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 Mendocino California

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Natural Show Of Swimming Pelicans On The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1980, this vintage home movie captures a serene natural scene along the Mendocino coast. The footage shows a calm body of water with gentle ripples, where a pair of pelicans swim together in the middle of the frame. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage. The birds move slowly across the water, creating subtle wakes as they glide through the greenish-blue surface. The shot is framed with black borders, typical of 8mm film, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This authentic slice of 1980s Americana offers a peaceful moment of wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 123108880

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 1466 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cajon vs arlington
Reel-level year note: 1980
Reel-level location note: el cajon, california
Date: 1980 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: Mendocino, 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: Useful for 1980s coastal California wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts, environmental cutaways, or quiet natural-history transitions.
Period detail: The frames show a soft, grainy 8mm view of open water and swimming pelicans, with no visible landmarks or objects that independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on distant birds as they move slowly across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green-blue water, small surface ripples, two distant pelicans, dark film borders, soft focus, and slight exposure variation.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, muted color, soft focus, and gate-edge borders that give the wildlife moment a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm wildlife cutaway, coastal transition, memory beat, or brief insert between broader Mendocino travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet visitor-level observation of coastal birdlife, without visible people, structures, signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location confirmation, and wildlife context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1980 8mm Mendocino pelicans, vintage California coast bird footage, home movie wildlife on water, and archival swimming seabirds.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel coastal scenes, then other Mendocino 1980 footage, then broader vintage California wildlife or water cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Mendocino, California 8mm footage from 1980 shows open rippling water, with the pelicans not clearly visible in this frame. — Open coastal water fills the frame, bordered by dark film edges.

Mendocino, California 8mm footage from 1980 shows two distant pelicans swimming together across green-blue water. — Two pelicans move together across the rippling coastal water.

Mendocino, California 8mm footage from 1980 shows two pelicans low in frame, swimming through lightly rippled water. — The pelicans drift near the lower edge of the frame in soft-focus water.

Mendocino, California 8mm footage from 1980 shows the pair of pelicans continuing across the water with a faint wake behind them. — A pair of pelicans continues across the water in a quiet coastal wildlife shot.

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