Minnesota USA-1965: Squirrel And Pheasant Eat Food In Snow

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Minnesota

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Squirrel And Pheasant Eat Food In Snow — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1965, this vintage home movie captures a squirrel in a snowy yard, cautiously approaching and eating from a wire trap. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows the small animal in natural winter light, its dark fur contrasting against the white snow. The scene shifts to a pheasant walking across the snow-covered ground, its long tail trailing behind. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, slight color shifts, and soft focus—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century American wildlife observation is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 125311944

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 1030 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,winter carnival,water tower bicycles
Reel-level year note: 1965
Reel-level location note: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,minnesota
Date: 1965 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: Minnesota, 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: 1960s Minnesota home-movie wildlife footage for documentary, education, or editorial sequences needing winter backyard animal behavior on 8mm film.
Period detail: The frames show a snowy yard, wire cage or feeder, and soft 8mm color that support a mid-1960s home-movie setting without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of someone filming ordinary backyard wildlife through a window or from a sheltered vantage point in winter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered ground, a dark squirrel, a wire cage or feeder, a pheasant, a long bird tail, vertical posts, film borders, and grain.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, muted color shifts, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a winter wildlife cutaway, a quiet memory beat, or a transition between rural home life and seasonal nature scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents casual mid-century home observation of animals in a snowy Minnesota yard, with no people or public event visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location details, and any property or animal-use concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1965 Minnesota 8mm wildlife, squirrel eating in snow, pheasant in snowy yard, and vintage home movie winter animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby scenes from the same reel, then other 1965 Minnesota winter footage, then broader home-movie wildlife or backyard animal clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a dark squirrel near a wire cage or feeder in a snow-covered yard. — A squirrel approaches or feeds beside a wire cage in the snow.

A dark squirrel remains close to a wire cage or feeder on snowy ground in vintage 8mm Minnesota footage. — The squirrel stays close to the wire cage or feeder on the snowy surface.

A pheasant with a long tail walks across snow in a 1965 Minnesota home-movie frame. — A pheasant crosses the snowy yard with its long tail trailing behind.

A pheasant stands low to the snow, its long tail stretched behind, in 1965 Minnesota 8mm footage. — The pheasant lowers its head toward the snow near a vertical post.

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