Ireland-1969: Border Collie in Grassy Field

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIreland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Ireland

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Border Collie in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a black and white male Border Collie standing in a grassy field in Ireland. The dog, with its distinctive markings, is seen urinating on the grass while looking toward the camera. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight blurriness, natural color shifts, and film grain—creating an authentic, nostalgic glimpse into a rural moment. The background features dense green foliage and tall grass, emphasizing the outdoor setting. This archival clip offers a candid, unscripted view of a pet in its natural environment, perfect for historical, documentary, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124342892

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ireland Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1960s Irish 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for rural pet life, working-dog breeds, or candid animal behavior.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, gate edges, and rural grass-and-hedgerow setting rather than date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with the dog pausing close to the camera during a routine outdoor moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black and white Border Collie, raised hind leg, tall grass, green field, dense shrubs, dark frame edges, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage carries visible grain, mild color shift, soft focus, and contact-frame borders that support its scanned 8mm archival character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, rural texture insert, pet-life detail, or lightly comic memory beat within a home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects an informal rural household or farm-adjacent animal moment in Ireland, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or animal-use context for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Ireland 8mm Border Collie, vintage dog in grass, rural home movie pet footage, and black and white collie outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Ireland 1969 rural footage, then broader 1960s home-movie animals and countryside pet scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Ireland 8mm frame of a black and white Border Collie in soft focus, standing in grass with dense foliage behind it. — A Border Collie stands in tall grass against a leafy rural background.

1969 Ireland 8mm frame showing the Border Collie in a grassy field, partly turned with one hind leg raised. — The dog pauses in the grass with one hind leg raised near dense foliage.

1969 Ireland 8mm frame of a black and white Border Collie in tall grass, softly focused and facing toward the camera. — The collie faces the camera from a patch of tall grass.

1969 Ireland 8mm frame showing the Border Collie in soft focus, head lowered in grass with shrubs behind. — The dog lowers its head as it stands in the grassy field.

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