Oakland California-1937: Geese and Ducks Swimming in Pond

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationOakland, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Oakland California

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Geese and Ducks Swimming in Pond — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a flock of geese and ducks swimming in a calm pond. The footage exhibits a distinct purple color cast, likely from film aging or processing, with visible grain and slight flicker characteristic of early home movies. Birds glide across the water's surface, some dipping their heads to feed, while others float peacefully. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of wildlife in a natural setting, preserved in classic Super 8 style.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127255038

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Oakland, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Oakland home-movie wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a quiet pond cutaway with waterfowl.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie format, soft focus, purple color shift, and simple outdoor pond scene rather than identifiable landmarks or events.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, observing geese and ducks from a distance as they swim, feed, and gather on shallow water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include geese, ducks, rippled pond water, bird shadows, shallow-water feeding, soft focus, dark frame edges, and contact-print borders.
Film character: The clip carries a home-movie film texture with visible grain, flicker, soft exposure, purple color cast, and slight instability from the original 8mm material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm wildlife insert, reflective transition, local memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1930s Oakland sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers a small everyday view of public or natural pond life in Oakland, with waterfowl activity but no visible people, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright and source permissions should be checked separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Oakland pond waterfowl, 8mm home movie ducks and geese, vintage California wildlife, and archival birds swimming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Oakland or 1937 material, then broader 1930s California outdoor, pond, bird, and home-movie wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Oakland 8mm frame showing geese and ducks scattered across shallow pond water with a strong purple film cast. — Geese and ducks gather in shallow pond water, some standing while others swim nearby.

1937 Oakland home-movie frame of geese and ducks dispersed across calm pond water, seen through soft purple-tinted 8mm film. — Ducks and geese drift across the pond in a wide, softly focused home-movie view.

1937 Oakland 8mm still with ducks and geese feeding and floating in shallow pond water, framed by dark film edges. — Several waterfowl feed or float in the shallow pond while others stand in the water.

1937 Oakland home-movie frame showing a loose flock of ducks and geese swimming across rippled pond water with aged color shift. — A loose flock of ducks and geese moves across the rippled pond surface.

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