Florida-1958: Colorful Macaw Parrot Slowly Crawls Upside Down on Clothesline

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Florida

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Colorful Macaw Parrot Slowly Crawls Upside Down on... — Clip Details

A vibrant blue-and-yellow macaw parrot slowly crawls upside down along a clothesline in a lush, green backyard setting. Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures the bird’s playful, acrobatic movements against a backdrop of tropical foliage and a wooden sign. The footage has a nostalgic, slightly grainy quality with rich color saturation typical of mid-century home recordings. A person in light clothing is briefly visible in the background, adding to the candid, everyday feel of the scene. This charming clip offers authentic archival footage of wildlife in a domestic environment.

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: 127280788

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1267 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1958 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: Florida, 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 1950s color home-movie requests needing a brief Florida animal or tropical backyard cutaway with a macaw in motion.
Period detail: The 8mm color frame, saturated stock, casual garden setting, and simple clothesline perch may show mid-century leisure filming in Florida.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor or family-film viewpoint, watching the macaw crawl and hang rather than presenting a formal wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue-and-yellow macaw, a clothesline or pole perch, dense green plants, lawn, wooden signs, and a distant person in light clothing.
Film character: The footage carries handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, high color saturation, and slight exposure variation across the frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, comic animal cutaway, transition beat, or memory detail within a Florida travel or family-reel sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests a domestic or visitor-access garden environment where an exotic bird was filmed casually amid tropical planting.
Research note: People appear in the background, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, animal-display, and property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Florida 8mm macaw footage, vintage parrot on clothesline, colorful backyard bird home movie, and mid-century tropical animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Florida 1958 material, then other vintage animal, garden, backyard, or tropical bird footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a blue-and-yellow macaw suspended upside down near tropical plants and wooden signs. — A blue-and-yellow macaw hangs upside down from a line or perch in a lush garden setting.

The macaw continues crawling along the line in the Florida garden, with foliage, signposts, and a distant person visible behind it. — The macaw shifts its body along the line as a person stands partly visible in the background.

The blue-and-yellow macaw stretches low along the clothesline in a saturated 1958 Florida home-movie frame. — The bird extends along the line, showing its long tail and blue wing feathers against the garden.

The macaw hangs almost vertically from the line, framed by tropical plants and mid-century 8mm film borders. — The macaw drops into a vertical pose while gripping the line in the garden.

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