Washington-1964: A Fat Bird Perched On A Stick In A Garden

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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A Fat Bird Perched On A Stick In A Garden — Clip Details

A chubby bird perches on a thin stick in a garden setting, its round body and small beak clearly visible. The bird shifts slightly, looking around with alert eyes as it balances on the wooden stick. The scene features a rustic wooden border, smooth river stones, and dark soil with scattered green sprouts. Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this home movie captures a quiet moment of wildlife in a backyard environment, with natural lighting and the characteristic grain of vintage Super 8 footage. The frame edges show the classic 8mm film border, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 127384251

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: 1964 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Washington home-movie requests needing a quiet backyard wildlife cutaway or natural-detail insert.
Period detail: The visible garden border, river stones, soil, and 8mm frame edges may show mid-1960s amateur filming rather than a clearly dateable public setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie observation of a small bird balancing and shifting on a stick in a garden bed.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a small round bird, thin stick, weathered wooden edging, dark soil, smooth stones, sprouts, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, handheld framing, film grain, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature insert, backyard transition, seasonal memory beat, or quiet pause within a family-film sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects domestic garden space and amateur close observation of backyard wildlife, without visible people, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, source ownership, location context, and any property questions still require review.
Research search match: Search match for 1964 Washington 8mm home movie bird in garden, backyard wildlife cutaway, vintage film animal insert, and small bird on stick.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden footage, then other Washington 1964 home movies, then broader 1960s backyard wildlife or nature inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small bird in 1964 Washington home-movie footage perches near weathered wood, stones, soil, and garden sprouts. — A small bird balances on a stick beside a rustic garden edge.

In a Washington 1964 garden view, the small bird remains near the wooden border, with dark soil and stones behind it. — The bird pauses along the wooden garden border with soil and stones in view.

The bird appears lower along the weathered garden edge in this 1964 Washington 8mm frame, near a vertical stake and soil. — The bird moves along the edge of the garden bed beside a vertical stake.

A small bird is partly motion-blurred near the stick and garden edging in the Washington 1964 home-movie frame. — The bird shifts position, creating slight motion blur against the garden bed.

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