Colorado-1969: White Swan on Blue Lake

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Colorado

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White Swan on Blue Lake — Clip Details

A white swan glides gracefully across a deep blue lake in this 8mm home movie from Colorado, 1969. Shot on vintage Super 8 film, the footage displays a strong blue color cast and characteristic grain, with the swan’s reflection visible on the calm water surface. The camera remains steady, capturing the serene movement of the bird as it swims from left to right, its long neck curved in elegant motion. This authentic slice of 1960s home movie footage offers a nostalgic, archival glimpse of wildlife in a natural setting.

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: 127492312

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 1316 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: black mar fire,flood,hippies,summer
Reel-level year note: 1968-1969
Reel-level location note: boulder colorado
Date: 1969 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: Colorado, 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: 1960s Colorado home-movie wildlife footage for documentary inserts, nature cutaways, or quiet archival transition beats.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s amateur color 8mm filming, with era suggested by the 1969 metadata rather than visible clothing, vehicles, or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The steady framing holds on a single swan crossing calm water, giving the scene the feel of an unstaged family travel or nature observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white swan, blue water, a faint reflection, rippled surface texture, dark frame edges, and contact-sheet divider bars.
Film character: The footage has dense blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, vertical scratches, and slight exposure variation typical of scanned small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a peaceful wildlife cutaway, lake insert, reflective pause, or memory beat within a Colorado or home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents amateur attention to wildlife and water landscapes without showing people, built environment, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and wildlife/location context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Colorado 8mm swan footage, vintage home movie lake wildlife, blue water bird swimming, or Super 8 animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Colorado 1969 outdoor scenes, then broader 1960s home-movie wildlife or lake footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White swan on blue water in Colorado 1969 home-movie footage, with soft focus and dark frame edges. — A swan glides across blue water near the opening of the clip.

The swan moves rightward, its body bright against the blue water.

Swan lowers its curved neck over blue water, with a darker reflection visible below in the 1969 Colorado home movie. — The swan bends its neck while its reflection appears beneath it.

Swan near the left side of the frame with its reflection on blue water, captured in blue-cast 1969 Colorado 8mm footage. — The swan nears the edge of frame, leaving a reflection on the water.

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