Puerto Rico-1966: Pelicans Swimming And Feeding In A Large Body Of Water

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationPuerto Rico
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Puerto Rico

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Pelicans Swimming And Feeding In A Large Body Of Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a flock of pelicans swimming and feeding in a large body of water in Puerto Rico. The footage shows the birds with their long beaks and distinctive pouches, some diving and splashing while others float calmly. The scene has a strong blue color cast typical of aged film, with visible grain and dark borders framing the action. The water ripples around the birds as they move, creating a natural, candid wildlife moment from a classic era of home filmmaking.

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: 127729036

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 1085 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: winter, lake,ice fishing,46th anniversary,party,sailboat,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965-1966-1967-1968
Reel-level location note: puerto rico
Date: 1966 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Puerto Rico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Puerto Rico wildlife home-movie footage suited for documentary cutaways, environmental history sequences, or period travel inserts showing pelicans on open water.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie texture, blue color shift, dark frame edges, and metadata-supported 1966 Puerto Rico setting rather than identifiable landmarks or built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler or family camera lingering on nearby wildlife as pelicans swim, feed, splash, and lift from the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flock of pelicans, long bills and throat pouches, rippling blue water, splashing birds, dark film borders, and one bird taking off low over the surface.
Film character: The footage carries aged 8mm texture with soft focus, pronounced grain, heavy blue cast, slight exposure variation, and contact-print borders that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, water transition, or brief atmospheric beat within a 1960s Caribbean or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents casual mid-1960s observation of coastal or waterside bird life in Puerto Rico without showing people, signage, landmarks, or a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any contextual claims before publication.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1966 Puerto Rico pelicans, 8mm home movie wildlife, vintage Caribbean water birds, and pelicans swimming and feeding footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1966 Puerto Rico material, then broader vintage 8mm wildlife or coastal-water bird scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Puerto Rico 8mm frame showing a cluster of pelicans swimming close together on blue rippling water. — Pelicans gather on the water, their long bills and pouches visible in the blue-tinted 8mm frame.

Pelicans swim in a loose flock on Puerto Rico water in a blue-shifted 1966 home-movie frame. — A loose flock of pelicans floats and turns on the water, framed by the dark edges of the film scan.

A 1966 Puerto Rico 8mm frame shows pelicans feeding or jostling on rippling water with visible splash. — Pelicans cluster tightly as one splashes on the surface, suggesting active feeding or movement.

A pelican takes off low over blue rippling water in a 1966 Puerto Rico home-movie frame. — One pelican rises from the water with wings spread, leaving faint disturbance on the surface behind it.

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