Sudan-1969: White Bird With Blue Wading In Lagoon Reflecting In Water

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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White Bird With Blue Wading In Lagoon Reflecting In Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a white bird with long legs and a blue-tinted body wading through a shallow lagoon in Sudan. The bird walks slowly along the water's edge, its reflection rippling in the calm surface. Tall reeds and green vegetation line the bank, creating a natural, serene setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from the late 1960s.

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: 127550738

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: 1969 Sudan home-movie wildlife footage suited for documentary cutaways, natural history context, or archive sequences needing a brief wading bird lagoon view.
Period detail: The visible period evidence comes mainly from the 8mm home-movie color, soft focus, grain, and scanned frame edges rather than from dated objects or built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, with the camera lingering on a bird moving slowly along the water rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white wading bird, reddish legs, shallow reflective water, rippled reflections, a muddy bank, reeds, grasses, and dense green-brown vegetation.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm texture with soft focus, muted saturated color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that reads as original physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition between landscape scenes, or reflective pause in a Sudan or lagoon sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for a wetland or lagoon environment in Sudan, showing birdlife and vegetation without identifiable people, buildings, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location specificity, copyright status, and any required natural-history claims should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm bird footage, vintage lagoon wading bird, home movie wildlife water reflection, and African wetland archive cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1969 Sudan material, and then with vintage wildlife, lagoon, water reflection, or travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a white wading bird with reddish legs near a lagoon bank, reflected in rippled water. — A white wading bird stands near the lagoon edge with its reflection visible in the water.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame of a white wading bird near the waterline, with reeds and vegetation mirrored in the lagoon. — The bird remains near the bank as its pale body and long legs reflect in the lagoon surface.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing the white wading bird lower in the frame, walking through reflective water beneath reeds. — The bird moves through the shallow lagoon while the reed-lined bank fills the background.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame of a white wading bird crossing shallow water, backed by reeds and mirrored vegetation. — A white wading bird crosses the lagoon foreground with reeds and reflections behind it.

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