Manaus Brazil-1979: Raging Waterfall While A Parrot Sits In A Tree

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationManaus, Brazil
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Brazil

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Raging Waterfall While A Parrot Sits In A Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant red parrot perched in a leafy tree against a bright blue sky in Manaus, Brazil. The scene transitions to a powerful, misty waterfall cascading over a rocky cliff into a turbulent river, surrounded by dense jungle. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a tropical adventure. This authentic 1970s home movie offers raw, unfiltered nature footage perfect for documentaries, retro projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124548936

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: 1979 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: Manaus, Brazil 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Brazilian home-movie nature footage suited to documentary inserts needing tropical wildlife and waterfall atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1970s amateur travel filming, with 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and no visible modern signage or infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering briefly on a perched parrot before cutting to a broad view of rushing water and jungle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red parrot in leafy branches, blue sky, dense trees, a wide waterfall, mist, river surface, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, saturated color shifts, and handheld instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use the clip as a nature cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition from wildlife detail to powerful landscape scale.
Historical context: The imagery reflects amateur travel attention to tropical wildlife and river scenery near Manaus without supporting claims about a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and any wildlife-use context separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1979 Manaus Brazil 8mm waterfall, red parrot in tree home movie, Amazon jungle river footage, and vintage tropical travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 Manaus material, then broader 1970s Brazil nature or waterfall footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red parrot sits partly hidden in a leafy tree against blue sky in 1979 Manaus home-movie footage. — A red parrot rests among green branches under a bright sky.

The parrot is more upright in the treetop, framed by leaves and blue sky in the Manaus 8mm footage. — The perched parrot stands out against the sky and foliage.

A broad waterfall drops beside dense jungle into turbulent water, with mist rising across the river surface. — A powerful waterfall throws mist over the river and surrounding trees.

The waterfall continues across the frame, with jungle above the drop and rippled river water in the foreground. — Jungle and falling water fill the frame as mist drifts over the river.

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