Chicago Illinois USA-1969: A Duck Relaxing In A Pond Flying Away In The Sky

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Duck Relaxing In A Pond Flying Away In The Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene natural scene at a pond. The footage shows a duck resting near the water's edge among reeds, followed by a brief moment of movement as it takes flight. The final frames depict the duck flying away into the sky, with the camera panning slightly to follow its path. The image quality is grainy and slightly blurry, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, with natural lighting and muted colors. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and offers authentic wildlife footage for documentaries, editorial content, or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124337873

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: Chicago, Illinois, 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: Supports 1960s Chicago-area archival requests needing brief 8mm wildlife pond footage for documentary cutaways, nature inserts, or memory-based transitions.
Period detail: The frames show no clear built landmarks or dated objects, so the 1969 period attribution rests on clip metadata rather than visible era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches a duck and pond from a casual outdoor vantage point, preserving an unstaged home-movie glimpse of local wildlife.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a duck near water, reeds and brush, muted pond surface, open sky, soft ground, film gate edges, grain, and handheld framing.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, muted color, gate shadowing, and slight handheld drift.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature cutaway, a brief seasonal insert, or a memory beat between urban or family-home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a small-scale view of everyday outdoor wildlife observation in the Chicago area without showing people, signage, or identifiable property.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed for the project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 8mm duck pond, Chicago home movie wildlife, vintage duck taking flight, and 1960s nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1969 Chicago-area outdoor footage, then broader vintage pond, bird, water, or quiet nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Chicago-area 8mm frame showing a duck near pond water beneath reeds and tangled brush. — A duck rests near the pond edge under reeds and brush.

Soft 8mm frame from the Chicago-area clip with the duck or bird shape partly visible against blurred brush and light exposure. — The bird appears small and soft in the frame as the camera follows movement.

Handheld 8mm frame showing blurred pondside ground or vegetation with a small pale bird shape near the lower-right edge. — Motion blur and soft focus obscure the pondside scene as the bird moves through frame.

Final 8mm frame shows duck shapes near the bottom edge against a dark, soft-toned background as the movement leaves the scene. — Duck shapes remain low in the frame against a dark, grainy background.

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