Kenya-1969: A Herd Of Buffaloes Moving Through The Savanna

$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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A Herd Of Buffaloes Moving Through The Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Kenya in 1969 captures a herd of buffaloes moving through a dry savanna landscape. The grainy, slightly blurred image shows the animals walking across golden grassland dotted with scattered acacia trees under a pale sky. Shot from a moving vehicle, the footage has a natural, unscripted quality with visible film grain and soft focus, characteristic of home movie recordings from the era. The buffaloes move steadily through the open terrain, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in their natural habitat during the late 1960s.

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: 122662532

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: Supports requests for late-1960s East African wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts showing buffalo moving through dry savanna terrain.
Period detail: The scene may show 1969 Kenya through 8mm home-movie color, soft focus, vehicle framing, dry grassland, and scattered acacia-like trees.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vehicle, valuing the brief, unstaged encounter with wildlife rather than a controlled nature-film setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a buffalo herd, dry yellow grass, scattered trees, open savanna, pale sky, scrub vegetation, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm archival texture through visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight blur, and handheld or vehicle-borne movement.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, safari transition, or brief period texture within a Kenya or East Africa sequence.
Historical context: The footage presents a tourist or amateur view of large wildlife in an open savanna setting without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and wildlife-location identification should still be checked before licensing decisions.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Kenya 8mm buffalo herd, vintage safari wildlife, East African savanna home movie, and buffaloes in grassland.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Kenya 1969 clips, then broader vintage safari, savanna wildlife, or East African travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing buffaloes crossing dry savanna grassland among scattered trees, with soft focus and film grain. — Buffaloes pass through dry savanna vegetation in a soft, grainy 8mm frame.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of dry savanna and trees, with the buffalo herd partly obscured by blur, vegetation, and contact-sheet framing. — The herd is faint in a blurred view of dry grassland and scattered trees.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with buffaloes moving across the lower edge of a dry savanna scene, partly blurred by vehicle motion. — Buffaloes cross the foreground as trees and yellow grass fill the savanna background.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing several buffaloes moving through dry savanna grass near trees and scrub, with grainy home-movie texture. — Several buffaloes move through grass and scrub in a brief vintage safari view.

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