Pretoria South Africa-1969: Gazelle Resting in Grassland with Water and Birds

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

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Gazelle Resting in Grassland with Water and Birds — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, 1969, showing a graceful gazelle with long, curved horns resting in a grassy field. The animal lies calmly, its light brown coat contrasting with the green grass and white underbelly, captured through a dark frame border typical of old film. The scene transitions to a distant view of a shimmering body of water under a deep blue sky, with small birds visible on the surface. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, archival quality, ideal for historical documentaries, wildlife projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 122666890

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

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 South Africa 8mm wildlife and landscape footage for documentary cutaways, travel context, or archive sequences needing non-urban Pretoria-area views.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm home-movie color, gate edges, and exposure shifts consistent with the stated 1969 date, with no visible signage or landmarks to independently verify place.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational visitor-shot feel, lingering on a resting horned antelope and then cutting to distant water and hills rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a resting horned antelope, grassy field, dark film borders, distant hills, clouds, blue-toned water, shoreline, and small birds on the surface.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, scenic transition, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet pause between broader South Africa archive scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests leisure or travel filming of wildlife and landscape near the stated Pretoria, South Africa location, without showing people or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright and any location or wildlife-use requirements should be reviewed separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s South Africa 8mm wildlife, Pretoria home movie antelope, vintage African landscape, and Super 8 lake mountain cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Pretoria or South Africa footage, then broader 1960s wildlife and landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Pretoria-area home-movie frame showing a horned antelope or gazelle lying in a grassy field with dark 8mm frame edges. — A horned antelope rests in a grassy field, seen through dark film borders.

1969 Pretoria-area 8mm frame of a resting horned antelope in grass, with duplicated contact-sheet framing and visible film grain. — The antelope remains still in the grass as the film frame divides the view.

1969 South Africa home-movie landscape frame showing distant hills under heavy clouds beside a blue-toned body of water. — A distant hill line sits beneath heavy clouds in a blue-toned landscape view.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a blue body of water, pale shoreline, and small birds scattered across the surface. — Small birds appear on blue water near a pale shoreline.

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