Kenya-1969: Dead Elephant In The Desert

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Dead Elephant In The Desert — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kenya in 1969 shows a deceased elephant lying on its side in a dry, sandy landscape. The animal, with visible tusks and a large wound on its flank, rests motionless on the ground with sparse greenery and fallen branches in the background. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color tones, noticeable grain, and dark vertical frame borders. This raw, unedited archival clip captures a somber wildlife scene with a distinct retro aesthetic, suitable for historical or documentary 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: 122662853

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: 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts about animal mortality, safari travel records, or archival East African landscapes.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm color home-movie texture, frame borders, and a dry open setting that supports the supplied 1969 Kenya context without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, holding on a difficult wildlife scene without staged action or visible human presence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a deceased elephant, tusks, a side wound, sandy ground, sparse shrubs, fallen branches, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Warm color, visible grain, soft focus, and contact-print borders give the shot a physical 8mm archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a somber wildlife insert, contextual cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Kenya travel or conservation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a visitor-recorded encounter with a dead elephant in a dry landscape, but the cause of death is not established by the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and wildlife-context sensitivities should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1969 Kenya 8mm elephant footage, dead elephant safari film, vintage wildlife home movie, or East Africa archival animal scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 travel material, then broader vintage wildlife or conservation-related archive scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a deceased elephant on its side in a dry sandy area with tusks, a flank wound, and sparse greenery behind. — A deceased elephant lies motionless on sandy ground, with tusks and a visible wound in view.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of a dead elephant lying in a dry clearing, with tusks extending to the right and brush in the background. — The elephant remains still in a dry clearing, framed by brush and film borders.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing the side of a deceased elephant on sandy terrain, with sparse vegetation and fallen limbs behind it. — A side view shows the elephant on sandy ground, with sparse vegetation behind the body.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of a dead elephant lying below brush and fallen branches, with tusks visible against the sandy ground. — The final frame holds on the elephant beneath brush and branches in the dry landscape.

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