Sudan-1969: Cormorant With Wings Outstretched Perched On Palm Tree

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Cormorant With Wings Outstretched Perched On Palm Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a cormorant perched atop a palm tree against a deep blue sky. The bird, with its wings fully outstretched, appears to be drying its feathers in the warm sunlight. The footage, likely from Sudan, shows the bird shifting slightly on the frond-topped tree, its dark silhouette contrasting sharply with the vibrant sky. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in a tropical 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: 127550626

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: Useful for 1960s wildlife or travel productions needing a brief Sudan home-movie cutaway of a cormorant-like bird perched high on a palm against open sky.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, gate edges, and 1969 metadata rather than architecture, dress, signage, or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler pausing to film a bird at distance rather than a staged wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: A dark bird, spread wings, palm crown, dried fronds, blue sky, film grain, and black frame borders are visible across the four frames.
Film character: The footage carries a home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing from scanned 8mm film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, tropical travel cutaway, transition beat, or quiet observational pause in a 1969 Sudan sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides environmental context for a period travel reel, showing a bird using a palm perch without visible people, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification and location should be verified separately from copyright or footage licensing review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife, cormorant on palm tree, bird with wings outstretched, and vintage travel home movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 material, then broader 1960s wildlife, palm, sky, or travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a dark cormorant-like bird with wings outstretched atop a palm crown under blue sky. — A dark bird spreads its wings while perched high on a palm crown.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a dark bird holding its wings open on a palm top, silhouetted against clear blue sky. — The bird remains on the palm top with its wings held open.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing the bird still perched on the palm crown, slightly blurred below a wide area of blue sky. — A soft-focused view places the perched bird near the lower edge of the frame.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with the dark bird perched to the right on a palm crown, wings partly open against the blue sky. — The bird shifts on the palm crown, framed to the right against open sky.

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