Pretoria South Africa-1969: Lioness Stalking Through Tall Grass Landscape

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationPretoria, South Africa
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 South Africa

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Lioness Stalking Through Tall Grass Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 captures a lioness moving through tall grass in a savanna landscape. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the predator cautiously stalking, its back and head visible as it navigates the vegetation. The scene transitions to a wide shot of a bird soaring over a vast, hazy plain with distant mountains under a purple-tinged sky, evoking a sense of wild, untamed nature. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with soft focus and film grain, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.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: 122666557

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: Pretoria, South Africa 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: Useful for 1960s South Africa wildlife archive requests needing brief natural-history inserts from visitor-shot 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The soft color, handheld framing, and visible film gate marks support a late-1960s home-movie look, while the landscape itself offers few precise dating clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an amateur observer pausing on wildlife and landscape movement rather than a staged nature sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lioness partly hidden in tall grass, dense vegetation, open plains, distant mountains, purple-blue sky, and a dark bird in flight.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft focus, color fading, and frame-edge shadows consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, a travel-memory insert, or a transition from animal observation to broad African landscape.
Historical context: The frames show wildlife and open terrain associated with the Pretoria, South Africa metadata, without visible people, roads, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location or wildlife-identification claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Pretoria 8mm wildlife footage, lioness in tall grass, bird over mountains, South Africa home movie, and vintage savanna landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1969 Pretoria or South Africa material, and then with broader vintage wildlife or landscape sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

A lioness moves through tall grass in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 home-movie footage, seen through soft 8mm color grain. — Lioness partially visible while moving through tall vegetation.

The lioness remains partly obscured by grass and brush in the 1969 Pretoria wildlife home-movie frame. — Lioness seen low in the grass, partly hidden by vegetation.

A bird flies across a hazy mountain landscape in the Pretoria, South Africa, 1969 8mm home-movie footage. — Bird crossing open sky above distant mountains and plain.

A dark bird glides over distant hills and open terrain in faded 1969 Pretoria 8mm footage. — Bird gliding over broad landscape with hills and clouded sky.

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