Florida-1958: Macaw and Ducks in Florida

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

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Macaw and Ducks in Florida — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant macaw parrot with red, yellow, and blue feathers walking on a concrete surface near a person's black shoes and dark trousers. The scene transitions to a pond where white-headed ducks swim calmly across the water, their reflections shimmering under a dim, blue-tinted light. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Florida atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic wildlife and domestic moments ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127281620

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 Florida home-movie requests needing brief animal cutaways, zoo or garden visit atmosphere, or domestic vacation wildlife inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s visitor footage, with dark trousers, black shoes, concrete paving, vivid reversal-film color, and pond scenes consistent with casual leisure filming.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes animals at close range from a visitor's perspective, lingering on a macaw near someone's feet and then on ducks moving across dark water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-yellow-blue macaw, black shoes, dark trouser legs, concrete paving, pond water, swimming ducks, ripples, reflections, and overhanging branches.
Film character: The 8mm image has dense grain, handheld framing, blue-shifted shadows, uneven exposure, and saturated color that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, vacation-memory beat, transition from a walking scene to pond life, or atmospheric cutaway in a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects casual mid-century amateur filming of animals in Florida, emphasizing visitor proximity and everyday leisure rather than a staged wildlife record.
Research note: People are partially visible by legs and shoes only, so likeness risk appears limited, but copyright, location, property, and animal-facility context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Florida 8mm home movie animals, vintage macaw parrot footage, ducks swimming in pond, and mid-century vacation wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Florida scenes, then other 1958 Florida home movies, then broader 1950s animal, zoo, garden, pond, and vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a colorful macaw on concrete beside a person's black shoes and dark trouser legs. — A colorful macaw stands close to someone's feet on a paved surface.

1958 Florida 8mm frame of a white-headed duck moving through dark pond water with ripples and reflected light. — A white-headed duck swims through a dim pond, leaving ripples behind it.

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing two ducks on a dark pond, with bright water ripples and shadowed vegetation nearby. — Two ducks move across the pond as reflected light breaks across the water.

1958 Florida 8mm frame with several ducks spread across a dim pond under an overhanging branch and reflected highlights. — Several ducks drift across the pond beneath a low branch.

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