Clipspindle.
Bird and duck archive. Short, strange film.
Clipspindle randomly cuts Commons images, moving pictures and eligible bird or duck sounds into a vertical short, then keeps the source record close.
Decorative field notes, not a preview of a generated clip.
01 / Browse beyond the usual
The whole archive, in one curious place.
The generator searches Wikimedia Commons for bird and duck files, then keeps images, video and clearly described natural sound recordings that carry an explicit public-domain label. Each run draws a different handful.
- 01Still images
- 02Archive video
- 03Bird & duck sounds
02 / Follow the provenance
Rights are part of the story.
Each generated clip saves the exact Commons file page, source title, creator or credit, file hash when available, and the published public-domain label and URL beside the video.
Clipspindle / rights index
A source record with every clip.
The published label
The manifest keeps Commons’ exact public-domain label and rights URL.
The source details
Open the file page to review the metadata and original source yourself.
Music needs separate evidence for its composition and its recording. This generator leaves music out until both records can be checked.
03 / Give the past a new beat
Make something gloriously low-budget.
Generate a random mix, preview the vertical MP4, and save its source-rights JSON beside it. Reels publishing is manual in this first slice; no Instagram account is connected.
Try the clip machine- 01 — Find
Draw eligible Commons files at random.
- 02 — Spin
Cut a twelve-second field film.
- 03 — Share
Preview, download, then post to Reels yourself.
The archive is open
Make the next strange thing.
Every cut comes with a separate file you can use to inspect the sources and rights labels.