Kenya-1969: Waterbuck Resting in Grassy Clearing

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationKenya
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Waterbuck Resting in Grassy Clearing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kenya in 1969 shows a brown antelope, likely a waterbuck, resting on a grassy clearing. The animal sits calmly in the sun, its long, curved horns visible against a backdrop of dense green bushes. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, capturing a quiet moment in the African wilderness. The shot is framed with dark borders, suggesting viewing through a camera lens or window. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122661406

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: Useful for 1960s Kenya wildlife requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of a resting horned antelope in a grassy, bush-lined setting.
Period detail: The warm color, soft focus, rounded frame edges and contact-print borders support a late-1960s amateur 8mm travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patient, observational feel of a traveler pausing to film wildlife from a fixed vantage point rather than staged animal behavior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated brown antelope, long curved horns, a pale rump patch, sunlit grass, dense green bushes, tree shadows and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, mild softness, warm color shift, slight exposure variation and dark rounded borders that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, quiet travel insert, Kenya memory beat or transition within broader African travel or nature sequences.
Historical context: The frames provide a small visual record of wildlife viewing in Kenya through a 1969 home-movie lens without identifying a specific reserve or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, brands or private property are visible, but species identification should be treated as likely rather than definitive and copyright status still requires source review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage, resting antelope on grass, waterbuck-like animal, African travel home movie and vintage safari cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife clips, then broader 1960s East African travel and nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a likely waterbuck seated on a grassy clearing near thick green brush. — A horned antelope rests in a sunlit grassy clearing with dense bushes behind it.

1969 Kenya home-movie frame of a horned antelope sitting calmly on grass in front of dense vegetation. — The animal remains seated on the grass, framed by shrubs and dark rounded film edges.

A likely waterbuck rests in a grassy Kenya clearing, captured in soft 1969 8mm color with dark frame edges. — The antelope sits low in the grass, its curved horns visible against the brush.

1969 Kenya 8mm still of a seated horned antelope near thick bushes, with warm color and visible film borders. — The final frame holds on the resting antelope in the grassy clearing beside thick vegetation.

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