Kenya-1969: Three Elephants in Grassy Landscape

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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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Three Elephants in Grassy Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kenya in 1969 shows two elephants standing in a green grassy landscape, with a third elephant joining them. The elephants, with reddish-brown skin, stand calmly near dense green foliage. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and natural lighting, with a slight camera shake and occasional lens flare. The footage captures a serene moment of wildlife in their natural habitat, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 122661847

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Kenya wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, museum context, education programs, or commercial edits needing elephants in an unbuilt grassy landscape.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color home-movie texture, handheld framing, and wildlife observation in Kenya, with no visible roads, buildings, signage, or dated objects beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler or family-film viewpoint, watching elephants at a respectful distance as they stand and move calmly near dense foliage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two to three elephants, reddish-brown skin, small tusks, green grass, dense shrubs, open shade, handheld framing, and contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage has warm color saturation, visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight handheld shake, and uneven exposure that read as original physical home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, transition within a Kenya reel, or quiet establishing beat for archival nature material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents mid-century tourist or amateur wildlife filming in Kenya without showing people, vehicles, camps, landmarks, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and wildlife-location permissions should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Kenya 8mm elephants, vintage home movie African wildlife, Super 8 elephant herd grassland, and archival Kenya safari footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife scenes, then broader 1960s African travel or elephant behavior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing two elephants standing calmly in a grassy area beside dense foliage. — Two elephants stand in a green clearing near shrubs.

1969 Kenya home-movie frame with two elephants in a grassy landscape, one partly behind the other near shrubs. — Two elephants pause beside foliage in the grass.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing three elephants in a grassy clearing, with one entering from the right near foliage. — A third elephant joins the pair near dense greenery.

1969 Kenya frame showing three elephants in grass, with one side-on elephant moving past dense green foliage. — Three elephants gather in the grassy landscape.

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