Kenya-1969: Large Cows Basking In The Wet Mud

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Large Cows Basking In The Wet Mud — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kenya in 1969 shows a herd of large bovines, likely water buffalo, wading and grazing in a muddy, waterlogged field. The animals move slowly through the wet earth under a bright sky, with a lush green pasture and dense trees in the background. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color degradation, and visible grain, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in a rural African landscape. The dark vertical borders suggest viewing through a film projector or original camera frame.

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: 122660711

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: Kenya 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Kenya animal footage suited to documentary or educational sequences needing rural wetland grazing behavior in an archival home-movie context.
Period detail: The 8mm look, soft color, and supplied 1969 Kenya metadata place the scene in a late-1960s travel or field-recording context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance without staging, holding on slow animal movement across mud and shallow water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include large bovines, dark wet mud, shallow reflective water, green pasture, dense trees, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, and slight frame instability give the shot a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, rural landscape insert, or quiet transition within travel, conservation, or memory-led sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows animals in a waterlogged grazing area, offering visual context for rural landscape and wildlife observation in Kenya.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but animal identification and any location-specific rights should be verified separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife, muddy grazing animals, African rural wetland home movie, and vintage bovines in pasture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Kenya footage, then other 1969 Kenya rural scenes, then broader archival wildlife or grazing animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing large bovines spread across mud and shallow water with trees beyond the pasture. — Large animals graze and stand in a muddy waterlogged field bordered by greenery.

1969 Kenya home-movie frame with large bovines moving slowly through a muddy, waterlogged grazing area. — Bovines forage in the wet ground as a bright pasture and trees sit in the background.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a small group of large bovines in a muddy field with wooded background. — A small group of animals remains low in the mud while grazing or drinking.

1969 Kenya home-movie frame with large bovines in wet mud, bordered by open green pasture and trees. — Animals stand and forage in the mud at the edge of a green pasture.

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