Sudan-1969: Flamingos Wading Across Lake

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Flamingos Wading Across Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flock of flamingos wading along the shoreline of a calm lake in Sudan. The birds, with their distinctive pink and white plumage, stand in shallow water against a backdrop of sandy dunes and sparse greenery under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color shifts typical of Super 8 home movies from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife. A pelican is also visible among the flamingos, adding to the scene's natural diversity. The camera remains steady, observing the birds as they move slowly across the frame, creating a peaceful, archival moment of nature.

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: 127550285

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: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Sudan Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Sudan wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, nature-history cutaways, education programs, and archive sequences needing flamingos at a lakeshore.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and home-movie framing support a late-1960s travel-film reading, while the visible scene is limited to birds, water, sand, scrub, and open sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational traveler viewpoint, holding on the birds from across the water without staged action, narration, or visible human presence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled blue lake water, flamingos in shallow shoreline water, one pelican-like white bird, sandy dunes, sparse vegetation, clear sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, mild softness, color shift toward blue, steady handheld framing, and contact-print edge darkness that give it useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm wildlife cutaway, geography insert, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Sudan or African nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents waterbirds along a Sudanese lakeshore in archival home-movie form, offering visual context for landscape, habitat, and travel observation without showing people or settlement.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source licensing, species identification, and location claims before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm flamingos, vintage home movie African lake birds, flamingos wading shoreline footage, and archival Sudan wildlife lake scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Sudan 1969 travel footage, and then with broader vintage wildlife, lakeshore, and African landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing flamingos scattered in shallow lakeshore water, with sandy dunes and sparse vegetation behind them. — Flamingos stand and wade near the shoreline, viewed across dark blue lake water.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with flamingos along the far shoreline, a pale pelican-like bird in the water, dunes, scrub, and blue sky. — Flamingos and a white waterbird gather along the lake edge below sandy dunes.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing flamingos in shallow shoreline water with a white pelican-like bird, rippled lake surface, dunes, and sparse plants. — Waterbirds move slowly along the distant shore as the camera holds across the lake.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a smaller group of flamingos near the shoreline, blue lake water in front, and pale dunes with sparse vegetation behind. — A small group of flamingos remains visible along the far lakeshore.

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