England-1949: Peacock Displays Fanned Tail Feathers in Garden

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationEngland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Peacock Displays Fanned Tail Feathers in Garden — Clip Details

ENGLAND-1949: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a peacock displaying its magnificent tail feathers in a garden setting. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the bird's iridescent blue and green plumage fanned out against a backdrop of green foliage and yellow flowers. The image is soft and slightly blurry, characteristic of 1940s home movie film, with visible grain and a nostalgic, archival quality. The peacock remains the central focus as it stands proudly, its tail fully spread in a classic courtship display.

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: 125782002

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 requests needing late-1940s English home-movie animal footage, especially garden wildlife inserts for documentary, education, museum, or period memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames show a peacock in a planted garden, with the 1949 England context supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks or datable objects.
Home-movie behavior: The short view has the feel of a visitor or family camera lingering on an eye-catching animal display rather than a staged wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock with spread tail feathers, blue neck, green foliage, yellow flowers, pale garden ground, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief animal cutaway, garden-life insert, transition into natural history material, or quiet memory beat in a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents casual home-movie attention to ornamental garden life, with the peacock display shown as the central visual event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 England 8mm peacock garden, vintage home movie peacock display, and 1940s animal footage with fanned tail feathers.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1949 England garden material, then with vintage home-movie birds or ornamental wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 England home-movie frame showing a peacock displaying its fanned tail in a soft-focus garden view. — Peacock displaying fanned tail feathers in a garden setting.

Soft 8mm frame of a peacock display in an English garden, with yellow flowers along the lower edge. — The peacock remains nearly centered as its tail fills the garden background.

Vintage 8mm view of a peacock displaying its tail, framed by greenery and a pale garden surface. — A soft-focus garden shot keeps the peacock and its fan of feathers in view.

1949 England 8mm frame showing the peacock display beside yellow flowers, with film borders and scan softness visible. — The final frame shows the peacock display beside a bright strip of yellow flowers.

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