England-1949: Peacock Trots Around Grassy Yard Displaying Its Back Tail Feathers

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Peacock Trots Around Grassy Yard Displaying Its Back... — Clip Details

ENGLAND-1949: A vibrant peacock trots across a sun-drenched grassy yard, its iridescent blue neck and green tail feathers with eye-like patterns clearly visible. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the bird in motion, displaying its magnificent plumage against a backdrop of lush green grass and dark foliage. The natural, unsteady camera movement and film grain add authentic vintage charm, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife from a mid-century home movie.

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: 125781941

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 1002 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: England
Date: 1949 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: England 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1940s England home-movie wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts or educational cutaways showing a peacock moving across a garden-like lawn.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century private or park-like grassy yard, with the era supported by the 1949 8mm source metadata rather than by distinctive architecture or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged visitor or family-film moment, with the camera following the bird as it trots past rather than arranging a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock, blue neck, green tail feathers, eye-like plumage markings, grass, pale paving, dark foliage, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and contact-sheet frame edges that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief animal cutaway, garden-life insert, transition beat, or period home-movie detail within a broader sequence on leisure, estates, or wildlife.
Historical context: The footage documents a peacock in a maintained outdoor green space, offering visual context for animal encounters captured in informal postwar British home movies.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status, location identity, and any property permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1949 England peacock 8mm footage, vintage home movie peacock on lawn, archival bird plumage film, and mid-century garden wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1949 England outdoor scenes, then broader vintage 8mm animal or garden wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 England 8mm frame showing a peacock with blue neck and folded tail walking across a grassy yard near pale paving. — A peacock crosses the lawn with its neck and folded tail visible.

The peacock moves in profile across the sunlit grass.

1949 England 8mm frame with a closer handheld view of the peacock, showing blue neck and eye-like tail markings. — A closer view shows the peacock's patterned feathers as it passes the camera.

1949 England 8mm frame focused on the peacock's green tail feathers and eye-like markings as the bird moves out of view. — The peacock's tail feathers dominate the frame as it moves past.

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