Kenya-1969: Shiny Day Elephant Eating Plants Near Hills

$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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Shiny Day Elephant Eating Plants Near Hills — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kenya in 1969 captures a majestic African elephant with prominent tusks standing in a sunlit savanna. The elephant, viewed through a dark frame likely from a vehicle window, feeds on green foliage amidst dry grass and scattered shrubs. The scene unfolds under a bright, slightly purplish sky with distant hills on the horizon, showcasing the natural habitat of the wild animal. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color shifts, and soft focus typical of 8mm archival footage from the late 1960s, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural environment.

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: 122662408

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 wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, education sequences, or archive-led references to elephant habitat and safari observation.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, dark vehicle-window edges, and metadata-supported 1969 Kenya setting place the scene in a late-1960s tourist or field-observation context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from inside or beside a vehicle while an elephant feeds without apparent direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, dry savanna grass, green shrubs, distant low hills, bright sky, and dark vertical frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, slight color shift toward purple-blue sky, soft focus, uneven exposure, and a handheld observational frame.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, safari-memory insert, habitat transition, or period travel beat within a Kenya or East Africa sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a visible elephant encounter in open Kenyan savanna, framed from a visitor-like viewpoint rather than a formal wildlife production setup.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status, filming permissions, and wildlife-location identification should still be checked.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1969 Kenya 8mm elephant, vintage safari home movie, African elephant feeding, and savanna wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1969 Kenya clips, then related vintage safari, savanna, elephant, or East African wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant in savanna grass, partly framed by dark vertical vehicle-window edges. — A tusked elephant stands in dry savanna vegetation with distant hills and a bright sky behind it.

1969 Kenya home-movie frame of an elephant with visible tusks feeding near low shrubs in sunlit savanna. — The elephant faces the camera area while browsing on vegetation in open grassland.

Soft 8mm Kenya frame showing a tusked elephant browsing behind foreground shrubs in a savanna setting. — Foreground shrubs partly cover the elephant as it feeds in dry grass beneath a bright sky.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of a tusked elephant browsing beside green bushes in open savanna with low hills beyond. — The elephant continues feeding near bushes, framed by grassland, distant hills, and dark film edges.

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