Florida-1958: Pink Flamingos and Waterfowl Walk in a Tropical Enclosure

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Florida

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Pink Flamingos and Waterfowl Walk in a Tropical Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil scene at a Florida wildlife enclosure. Pink flamingos stand gracefully on a grassy area while various waterfowl, including ducks and a pelican, walk across a sandy patch. The footage shows natural behavior in a zoo-like setting, with lush green trees and foliage in the background under a bright sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of 8mm home movie footage from the late 1950s, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 127281553

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 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: Supports requests for 1950s Florida home-movie wildlife footage, especially zoo or roadside-attraction cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or period montage use.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century visitor wildlife enclosure, with pink flamingos, waterfowl, sandy walking areas, low railings, tropical planting, and faded 8mm color supporting the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The short sequence has an unstaged visitor-shot feel, observing birds moving in an enclosure without narration, posed action, or visible people directing the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink flamingos on grass, ducks or other waterfowl crossing sand, a pelican on a low barrier, tropical trees, bright sky, enclosure edging, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries a home-movie 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, exposure variation, and contact-print edge marks.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a period wildlife insert, Florida travel cutaway, zoo-visit transition, or quiet memory beat between broader 1950s vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects a leisure or visitor encounter with captive tropical birds in Florida, useful as visual context for mid-century travel, animal displays, and family tourism.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but animal-site identity, location claims, copyright status, and any property or collection permissions should be verified separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Florida 8mm flamingos, vintage home movie pelican enclosure, 1950s zoo waterfowl, tropical bird attraction footage, and archival Florida wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Florida material, then broader 1950s travel, zoo, tropical birds, flamingos, pelicans, and family vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing flamingos in the background and ducks or other waterfowl crossing sand inside a tropical enclosure. — Flamingos and smaller waterfowl move through a sandy bird enclosure.

1958 Florida 8mm frame with a pelican or similar large waterbird perched on a low enclosure edge under a bright blue sky. — A large waterbird perches along the enclosure edge beneath open sky.

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a pelican-like bird bending or settling near a low barrier, with sky and enclosure structure visible. — The large bird shifts posture along the low enclosure barrier.

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a pelican-like bird from behind on an enclosure edge, set against blue sky and faint clouds. — A pelican-like bird turns away on the edge of the enclosure.

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