Sudan-1969: Flamingos Wading in Water Along Desert Shoreline

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Flamingos Wading in Water Along Desert Shoreline — Clip Details

SUDAN-1969: A flock of flamingos wades through shallow water along a sandy shoreline, their long legs and curved necks silhouetted against a dusty desert backdrop. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the birds in natural motion, their white and pink plumage contrasting with the deep blue water and pale sky. The grainy texture and color saturation reflect the era's home movie aesthetic, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from a remote African location.

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: 127550343

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 8mm wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing flamingos along a desert shoreline.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s home-movie color stock, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to narrow the date beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a traveler or amateur naturalist viewpoint, observing the birds from across water without staged action or visible human intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flamingos in shallow water, rippled blue water, a sandy bank, low desert vegetation, pale sky, and contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, saturated blue water, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel-film transition, or quiet natural-history beat within a Sudan or desert-water sequence.
Historical context: The imagery documents flamingos along an arid shoreline setting, but the frames do not identify a precise water body, reserve, migration event, or filming party.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, source permissions, and location or wildlife-use requirements.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm flamingos, vintage African wildlife footage, desert shoreline birds, and home-movie flamingo wading scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 material, then broader archival wildlife, waterbird, desert shoreline, or African travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing flamingos spaced along a sandy bank with rippled water in the foreground and pale sky above. — Flamingos stand and wade along a sandy shoreline above rippled blue water.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with flamingos wading near a desert shoreline, partly divided by dark contact-sheet film borders. — Flamingos gather near the waterline with sandy terrain and sparse vegetation behind them.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing several flamingos wading in a loose group beside dark blue water and a pale sandy shore. — Several flamingos wade in a loose group along the edge of the water.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing rippled water, a low sandy shoreline, pale sky, and contact-sheet borders with birds no longer prominent. — The camera holds on rippled water and a low sandy shoreline after the birds move out of view.

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