Tampa Florida USA-1960: A Silhouette Of A Person Walks Through An Urban Setting Then A Parrot In A Tropical Enclosure

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationTampa, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Tampa Florida

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A Silhouette Of A Person Walks Through An Urban Setting... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage footage captures a man in a dark suit walking across a city street in Tampa, Florida. The scene is framed by a dark foreground, focusing on a large modern building with white columns and expansive windows. Yellow crosswalk lines mark the asphalt, and a traffic light is visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic mid-century urban atmosphere. The clip transitions to a vibrant tropical setting with a colorful parrot perched on a wooden structure amidst lush green foliage, suggesting a visit to a zoo or aviary. The footage offers authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123629204

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1960 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: Tampa, Florida, 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 1960 Tampa urban atmosphere, mid-century street inserts, and visitor-shot zoo or aviary cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The city frame shows a modern columned building, broad windows, street markings, and a traffic signal that fit the supplied 1960 Tampa metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, moving from a distant passerby on a city street to a visitor's view of a parrot in a leafy enclosure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a columned urban building, yellow street lines, a traffic light, a silhouetted walker, dense foliage, a perched parrot, wooden branches, and a partial visitor figure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated color, heavy contrast, handheld framing, and visible contact-sheet borders that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief city-to-zoo transition, a Tampa memory beat, or a cutaway linking urban travel with leisure or animal exhibits.
Historical context: The footage may reflect a tourist or family visit moving between downtown Tampa and a tropical bird enclosure without proving a specific institution.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960 Tampa 8mm street scene, vintage Florida urban footage, home movie parrot enclosure, and mid-century zoo aviary cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1960 Tampa footage, and then broader Florida travel, zoo, aviary, or tropical animal home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Tampa street view with a distant walker, yellow road markings, a traffic light, and a large columned building. — A passerby crosses near a modern columned building on a Tampa street.

A parrot stands on wooden branches inside a lush tropical enclosure, with part of a visitor visible at the frame edge. — A parrot perches among branches and foliage in a tropical enclosure.

Visitor-shot view of a colorful parrot perched in a leafy enclosure, with branches, flowers, and shade visible. — The parrot remains perched against dense greenery and branches.

A colorful parrot balances on a branch structure in a leafy enclosure, with a partial visitor figure at the lower right. — A colorful parrot is framed by branches, foliage, and a partial visitor silhouette.

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