England-1949: A Peacock Displays Its Colorful Wings And Feathers

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A Peacock Displays Its Colorful Wings And Feathers — Clip Details

A peacock displays its magnificent tail feathers in a lush garden setting, captured on 8mm film in 1949. The vibrant blue and green plumage fans out against a backdrop of yellow flowers and green foliage, with the bird standing proudly on a path. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading typical of mid-century home movies. This nostalgic clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a domestic garden environment, evoking the charm of post-war British leisure and nature appreciation.

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: 125781995

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s England archive requests needing a brief nature or garden cutaway from amateur 8mm color footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a post-war English garden scene, with a peacock filmed close to flower beds and a path rather than a formal public landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing the peacock's display from a nearby garden vantage point without visible handlers or visitors.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock with fanned tail feathers, blue and green plumage, yellow flowers, garden foliage, a pale path, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, color fading, and slight handheld instability characteristic of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, garden transition, animal cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s British domestic-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century amateur filming of leisure and nature, showing attention to garden wildlife rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 England 8mm peacock footage, vintage garden wildlife home movie, and 1940s color peacock display.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden footage, then with England 1949 home movies, then with broader vintage wildlife or domestic garden scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 England 8mm frame showing a peacock displaying its tail feathers in a garden setting with yellow flowers and foliage. — Peacock displays its fan of feathers near garden flowers.

A peacock stands in an English garden with its blue body visible and tail feathers spread wide across the frame. — Peacock stands with tail feathers spread in the garden.

Soft-focus 1949 garden frame showing the peacock's fanned plumage, blue body, yellow flowers, and dark 8mm frame edge. — Soft-focus view of the peacock's display beside flowers.

Final 8mm still of the peacock display, with fanned green plumage, blue body, garden path, and surrounding foliage visible. — Peacock's fanned plumage fills the garden view.

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