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Nigeria-1969: Marabou Stork With Long Pink Beak And Black Feathers

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Marabou Stork With Long Pink Beak And Black Feathers — Clip Details

A large marabou stork stands in a grassy field in Nigeria, its long pink beak and black feathers clearly visible. The bird's thin white legs are prominent as it moves slowly across the frame. Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures the natural behavior of the stork in its habitat. The footage shows slight camera movement and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film, with another stork briefly appearing in the background. The scene evokes a sense of wildlife observation from a bygone era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
6s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127563701

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
Nigeria Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s wildlife or West Africa archive requests needing brief 8mm cutaways of a large stork in grassland.
Period detail
The 8mm texture and metadata-supported 1969 date place the clip in a late-1960s home-movie context, with no visible buildings, vehicles or clothing for added dating.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has an observational home-movie feel, with the camera holding on the bird as it stands and shifts in tall grass rather than staging action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a marabou stork, long pale-pink bill, dark body feathers, white legs, tall grass, soft tree cover and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character
The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure and handheld framing that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, location cutaway, natural-history transition or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Nigeria sequence.
Historical context
The clip documents visitor-shot wildlife observation in Nigeria, showing a large stork in grassy habitat without visible human activity or built environment.
Research note
No people, logos or private property are visible, but species identification, location metadata and copyright status should be checked before publication.
Research search match
Researcher searches might include 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife, marabou stork home movie, African bird in grassland and vintage nature footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or bird observation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Marabou stork stands in a grassy field in metadata-supported 1969 Nigeria, framed in soft 8mm color.
A marabou stork stands upright in tall grass, its long bill and dark body visible.
A grassy field fills the frame, with part of a stork partly obscured by the contact-sheet divider.
The camera view drifts across grass while the bird is only partly visible near the center edge.
The stork remains in tall Nigerian grass, its long bill, bare neck area, dark plumage and thin white legs visible.
A closer frame shows the stork standing in grass with its bill angled left.
Two partial stork forms appear near the lower edge of the grassy frame, one showing a long bill and head.
The stork drops low in the frame as another partial bird form appears at the right edge.

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