Kenya-1969: Elephant Flapping Its Ears In The Sunshine And Waving Its Trunk

$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.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

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Elephant Flapping Its Ears In The Sunshine And Waving... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Kenya in 1969 captures a majestic African elephant standing in a sunlit savanna. The elephant, with prominent tusks and large ears, flaps its ears and waves its trunk while standing amidst dry grass and scattered shrubs. The scene is framed by the characteristic black borders of home movie film, with a slightly overexposed blue sky and distant hills. The footage exhibits natural film grain and subtle color shifts typical of 1960s amateur color film, offering authentic archival wildlife footage.

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: 122662460

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 East Africa wildlife, safari travel, conservation, or natural-history edits needing real home-movie elephant footage from Kenya.
Period detail: The 8mm frame borders, color stock, handheld framing, and 1969 Kenya metadata support a late-1960s amateur safari-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor viewpoint, holding on a single elephant as it moves its ears and trunk in open grassland.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant with tusks, dry savanna grass, low shrubs, distant hills, blue sky, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft focus, blue-shifted sky, slight exposure variation, and handheld 8mm registration that signal original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a wildlife insert, safari cutaway, conservation context shot, or quiet memory beat within a Kenya travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a large elephant in open Kenyan grassland, offering visual context for late-1960s safari and wildlife observation without identifying a specific reserve.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source licensing, wildlife context, and any location-specific claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Kenya 8mm elephant footage, vintage safari home movie, African savanna wildlife, elephant tusks, ears, and trunk movement.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Kenya 1969 safari material, then broader vintage African wildlife or elephant behavior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing an elephant facing camera in dry savanna grass, with tusks, shrubs, hills, and blue sky. — An elephant faces the camera from dry grassland, framed by 8mm film borders.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of an elephant in sunlit savanna, one ear spread outward as tusks and dry grass remain visible. — The elephant stands among shrubs and grass with its ear spread outward.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing an elephant facing forward in dry grassland, trunk lowered, ears partly open, and hills in the distance. — The elephant remains nearly head-on, its trunk lowered into the grass.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of an elephant in savanna grass near a foreground shrub, with ears extended, tusks visible, and blue sky above. — The elephant holds its ears out while standing behind a low green shrub.

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