Colorado-1969: White Swans Floating on Small Artificial Lake

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

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White Swans Floating on Small Artificial Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures white swans gliding across a small artificial lake at dusk. The footage, marked by a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture, shows the swans swimming calmly, their reflections rippling in the dark water. A vertical film line runs through the frame, and the dim lighting suggests a quiet evening in a park or garden setting. The scene evokes a nostalgic, serene mood, typical of mid-century amateur film recordings.

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: 127492333

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 Colorado home-movie footage for documentary or education edits needing a quiet dusk cutaway of swans on a small artificial lake.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1960s park or garden water feature, with only the swans, dark shoreline, reflections, and distant building lights visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a static amateur position as the swans drift through frame, preserving an unstaged visitor view rather than a composed wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white swans, dark rippling water, shoreline shadows, faint building reflections, dusk light, and a vertical film line.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries pronounced grain, low-light exposure, purple color shift, soft focus, and vertical line artifacts consistent with aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nature insert, evening transition, reflective memory beat, or quiet cutaway within a Colorado or 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents an everyday leisure setting where ornamental swans and water reflections become the focus of a brief amateur film observation.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property permissions should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1969 Colorado 8mm swans on lake, vintage home movie dusk water, white swans reflections, and small artificial lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1969 park or water scenes, then with broader vintage swan, lake, dusk, or home-movie nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a white swan partly framed at left on a dim artificial lake with rippling water. — A lone white swan drifts at the edge of the dark lake surface.

1969 Colorado home-movie frame with two white swans on dim water, shoreline shadows, and soft reflections at dusk. — Two swans move across the reflective water near the shadowed bank.

1969 Colorado 8mm still showing two white swans gliding across a small artificial lake under low evening light. — The swans glide together through purple-toned water and soft shoreline reflections.

1969 Colorado home-movie frame of two white swans on dark water, with distant lights and building reflections at dusk. — Two swans pass through a darker section of the lake beneath faint reflected lights.

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