Sudan-1969: Pod Of Swimming Pelicans Underneath Trees In The Water

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Pod Of Swimming Pelicans Underneath Trees In The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a pod of white pelicans swimming calmly in a sun-dappled river in Sudan. The birds glide through the water beneath a dense canopy of palm trees and hanging moss, their reflections rippling on the surface. The footage has a warm, nostalgic color palette with natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The scene evokes a peaceful, untouched natural environment, offering authentic archival wildlife footage for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127550675

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: 1969 Sudan wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary cutaways, environmental history sequences, or natural-world archive inserts.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly 8mm color stock, soft focus, handheld framing, and metadata placing the river bird scene in Sudan in 1969.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, watching the pelicans drift through shaded water without staging or direct human interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white pelicans on rippling water, palm trunks, hanging palm fronds, shoreline vegetation, reflected light, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows warm 8mm color, visible grain, soft exposure shifts, motion blur, and handheld framing that carry useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, quiet transition, environmental establishing insert, or reflective natural-history beat.
Historical context: The scene documents a calm river or wetland setting with pelicans beneath dense palms, offering visual context for Sudanese wildlife footage without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, location claims, and any wildlife-use context for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm pelicans, vintage home movie river birds, white pelicans under palms, and archival wetland wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 footage, then broader 1960s wildlife, rivers, palms, or bird migration material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing white pelicans drifting across rippled water below palm vegetation. — Pelicans move through shaded water with palms along the bank.

White pelicans appear in a small group on Sudanese water, framed by dark film edges and palm-covered shoreline. — A small group of pelicans glides near the palm-lined bank.

1969 8mm footage frame with pelicans moving along a palm-fringed waterway in Sudan. — Pelicans pass beneath hanging palm fronds near the shoreline.

White pelicans cluster near low palm growth in a warm, grainy 8mm Sudan river scene from 1969. — Pelicans gather close to the palm-covered edge of the water.

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