Nigeria-1969: Pelicans with Long Beaks Swimming in Blue Water

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Pelicans with Long Beaks Swimming in Blue Water — Clip Details

Two pelicans with long beaks glide slowly across calm blue water in this vintage 8mm home movie from Nigeria, 1969. Shot on Super 8 film, the footage captures the birds swimming in gentle motion, their gray and white plumage contrasting against the deep blue water. The scene exudes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere, with subtle film grain and warm color tones characteristic of 1960s home movies. The camera remains steady, focusing on the natural behavior of the pelicans in their aquatic environment.

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: 127561753

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: Nigeria 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: Useful for 1960s Nigeria wildlife or coastal nature requests needing brief Super 8 cutaways of pelicans moving calmly on blue water.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color and soft home-movie framing, with no visible landmarks or date markers beyond the supplied 1969 Nigeria metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observation of pelicans from a nearby waterside viewpoint, with the camera simply watching their slow movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two pelicans, long pale beaks, rippled blue water, a distant concrete edge, soft shadows, and rounded film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has pronounced film grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and saturated blue water typical of scanned 1960s home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet wildlife insert, environmental cutaway, transition beat, or reflective pause within travel or natural-history sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents pelicans in a Nigerian waterside setting without showing people, signage, or identifiable built landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be checked before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria Super 8 pelicans, vintage 8mm birds on water, African wildlife home movie, and calm blue water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader vintage bird, water, or wildlife home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A pelican with a long pale beak floats on blue water in 1969 Nigeria home-movie footage, partly framed by dark scan borders. — A pelican drifts across blue water near the start of the clip.

Two pelicans with long beaks move across calm blue water in the Nigeria 1969 Super 8 footage. — Two pelicans swim slowly with rippled water around them.

Two pelicans glide through blue water, with the nearer bird showing gray and white plumage in a vintage Nigeria home movie frame. — The birds pass closer together as they move across the water.

Two pelicans continue swimming apart on rippled blue water in the final sampled frame from the 1969 Nigeria clip. — The pelicans spread across the frame as the short wildlife shot ends.

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