Florida-1958: Ridiculous Funny Amazing Smart African Parrot Sliding Down A Tall Slide

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

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Ridiculous Funny Amazing Smart African Parrot Sliding... — Clip Details

A vibrant 1958 8mm home movie clip from Florida captures a colorful macaw sliding down a small playground slide at Busch Gardens. The parrot, with bright red, yellow, and blue feathers, moves playfully down the purple slide while another bird forages nearby on the sandy ground. A person in light-colored clothing stands nearby, and the iconic Busch Gardens sign is visible in the background under a blue-and-white striped awning. The footage has the warm, slightly faded color palette and grain of vintage Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century amusement park entertainment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127281438

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 Florida travel, amusement-park, animal-act, or roadside-attraction productions needing brief home-movie evidence of a trained parrot on a playground slide.
Period detail: The striped awning, painted attraction sign, simple metal slide, sandy ground, and visitor clothing support a mid-century leisure setting consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, watching the bird performance from close range while nearby adults move through the attraction area.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a colorful macaw, purple slide, sandy ground, striped awning, Busch Gardens sign, nearby visitors, trees, and other birds on the ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows dense grain, soft focus, high-contrast shade, handheld framing, and slight color fading that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, comic cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about Florida attractions, exotic birds, or family tourism.
Historical context: The clip documents staged animal entertainment in a public visitor setting, offering visual context for mid-century amusement and tourist photography without proving wider institutional history.
Research note: Human figures and the Busch Gardens sign are visible, so copyright, trademark, location, and likeness considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Florida 8mm home movie parrot slide, Busch Gardens bird attraction, vintage macaw performance, and mid-century tourist footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Florida or Busch Gardens material, then broader vintage animal-act or amusement-park footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida home-movie frame showing a macaw poised on a purple slide with a striped awning and Busch Gardens sign behind it. — A macaw starts down a small slide in front of a Busch Gardens attraction sign.

The macaw slides down the purple playground slide while a visitor stands nearby and the Busch Gardens sign remains visible behind it. — The bird moves down the slide as visitors and attraction signage appear in the shaded background.

A macaw nears the bottom of the slide while another colorful bird stands on the sandy ground and an adult walks through the frame. — The sliding macaw reaches the lower chute with another bird nearby on the ground.

Two birds remain on the sandy ground near the slide and painted attraction structure, with visitor legs visible at the edge of the frame. — After the slide moment, birds gather on the ground near the attraction structure.

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