Sudan-1969: Flock of Flamingos Wading Along Shoreline

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Flock of Flamingos Wading Along Shoreline — Clip Details

SUDAN-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a flock of flamingos wading through shallow water along a sandy shoreline. The birds, with their distinctive pink plumage and long legs, move gracefully in a line across the frame. Behind them, a dry, arid landscape with sparse greenery stretches under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century wildlife observation is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127550334

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

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 Sudan wildlife home-movie footage for documentary inserts, environmental history sequences, travel context, or archival nature observation cutaways.
Period detail: The scene may show 1969 8mm travel footage, with visible clues limited to the film stock look, handheld framing, arid shoreline, shallow water, and flamingos.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged field observation, filmed from across the water as the birds move naturally along the shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flamingos, shallow blue water, sandy dunes, sparse shoreline vegetation, open sky, soft focus, and contact-print frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, mild color shift, and handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, quiet transition, or establishing insert for arid wetland and bird migration themes.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century traveler’s view of flamingos in an arid waterside setting, without visible people, buildings, signage, or modern infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still clear copyright and verify species, location, and any project-specific natural-history claims.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm flamingos, vintage home movie birds wading, arid shoreline wildlife footage, and African wetland travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 travel footage, then related vintage 8mm wildlife, birds, shoreline, or arid landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing flamingos walking in shallow water along an arid sandy shore. — Flamingos move in a line across shallow water near low sandy dunes.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with flamingos spread across a shallow shoreline below sandy dunes. — The flock remains near the waterline with arid sand and sparse greenery behind it.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing flamingos wading beside rippled water and a dry sandy bank. — Flamingos cross the frame against a quiet arid shoreline.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a soft-focus flock of flamingos along shallow water below dunes. — Soft-focus footage shows the birds continuing along the shoreline.

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