Saint Louis Missouri-1965: Goose Swims in Pond by Decorative Stone Grotto

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Saint Louis Missouri

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Goose Swims in Pond by Decorative Stone Grotto — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1965, this vintage home movie captures a decorative stone grotto with white statues set against a backdrop of greenery and a red-roofed building in Saint Louis, Missouri. The scene transitions to a white goose swimming gracefully across a calm pond, its reflection rippling in the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural color tones typical of mid-century home movies, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and suburban tranquility.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125314415

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1026 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1965
Reel-level location note: saint louis
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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a quiet Saint Louis home-movie cutaway of garden ornamentation, pond water, and a white waterfowl in a residential or park-like setting.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, red-roofed building, manicured greenery, and decorative stone grotto may show mid-1960s leisure or garden scenery in Saint Louis.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual visitor perspective, moving from a decorative grotto to a goose on the pond without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone grotto, white statues, shrubs, a red roof, pond water, lawn, a white goose, and reflected shapes on the water.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat between broader Saint Louis, garden, water, or mid-century domestic-travel sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a quiet outdoor leisure view, with decorative landscape features and a pond subject captured in a personal home-movie style.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1965 Saint Louis 8mm home movie, decorative grotto statues, goose swimming in pond, vintage garden footage, and mid-century waterfowl cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1965 Saint Louis material, then related garden, pond, statue, and waterfowl home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Saint Louis 8mm frame showing a decorative stone grotto with white statues, greenery, and a red-roofed building in the background. — Decorative grotto and white statues set among greenery near a red-roofed building.

1965 Saint Louis 8mm frame of a white goose on calm pond water, with grass and dark hedges beyond the shoreline. — White goose moves across the pond in front of a green lawn.

1965 Saint Louis 8mm frame showing a white goose swimming through reflective pond water below a green lawn and hedge line. — A white goose crosses reflective pond water below the grassy bank.

1965 Saint Louis 8mm frame of a white goose near the right side of the pond, backed by soft reflections, grass, and hedges. — The goose drifts near the edge of the frame on the pond.

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