Washington DC USA-1943: Peacock Displays Full Plumage In Vintage 8mm Footage

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Peacock Displays Full Plumage In Vintage 8mm Footage — Clip Details

A majestic peacock displays its full, fan-shaped plumage in this vintage 8mm home movie from 1943. Shot in Washington DC, the clip captures the bird's iridescent blue neck and expansive tail feathers with distinctive purple and blue coloration, likely due to film aging. The peacock stands on sandy ground, its feathers fully spread in a classic courtship display. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color shifts, and soft focus, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife from the mid-20th century. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123137721

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 1719 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1942-1943
Reel-level location note: washington dc,baltimore
Date: 1943 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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: 1940s 8mm wildlife footage from Washington, DC for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of a peacock displaying its tail.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the soft 8mm home-movie image, aged color shift, and simple outdoor animal setting rather than identifiable architecture or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming an animal attraction, holding on the peacock as it presents its fan of feathers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock with spread tail, iridescent blue body, sandy ground, dark background foliage, soft focus, frame-edge shadows, and purple-blue film color shifts.
Film character: The footage shows pronounced 8mm grain, soft exposure, magenta and blue color drift, and slight frame instability consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, a visual transition, or a memory beat within a 1940s home-movie or Washington-area sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents mid-century leisure filming of a captive or park-like bird display, though the exact facility is not identifiable from the frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, collection permissions, and any location or animal-facility context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm peacock display, Washington DC home movie wildlife, vintage bird plumage footage, and archival zoo or park animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Washington DC footage from 1943, then other vintage 8mm animal, zoo, park, or bird-display material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Peacock displaying a broad fan of tail feathers in 1943 Washington, DC 8mm home-movie footage with purple-blue color shift. — A peacock stands front-facing with its tail fanned wide against a dark outdoor background.

Front-facing peacock holds its fan-shaped plumage open in 1943 Washington, DC 8mm footage with magenta-blue aging effects. — The peacock remains centered, its tail forming a wide fan over the sandy enclosure floor.

Soft 8mm frame of a peacock displaying tail eyespots and a blue body in Washington, DC footage from 1943. — The bird’s spread feathers fill much of the frame, with eyespots and color shifts visible in the film scan.

Peacock in a 1943 Washington, DC 8mm home movie stands on sandy ground with its tail fan open and dark foliage behind. — The final frame holds on the peacock’s full display, with the body low in the frame and the feather fan behind it.

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