Pretoria South Africa-1969: Black Rhino Standing in Grassy Field

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

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Black Rhino Standing in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 captures a large black rhinoceros standing in a grassy savannah field. The rhino, with its distinctive two horns, is seen in profile, occasionally lowering its head toward a white object on the ground. The scene unfolds under a bright sky with distant hills, viewed through the characteristic frame borders of an old film projector. The image exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, authentic quality typical of personal travel footage from 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: 122666953

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: Useful for 1960s wildlife, travel, or conservation edits needing archival 8mm footage of a black rhinoceros in a South African grassland setting.
Period detail: The clip shows late-1960s home-movie color film texture, with visible projector-style frame borders and a distant open landscape identified by metadata as Pretoria, South Africa.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the rhinoceros from a visitor or traveler viewpoint, holding on the animal without staged action or professional wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black rhinoceros, two horns, tall green grass, a pale object on the ground, distant hills, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and gate-edge borders that read as authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, conservation context shot, or transition within a broader South Africa archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a rhinoceros in an open grassy landscape through a private travel-film lens, without visible people, signage, or modern infrastructure in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, species/location claims, and any project-specific wildlife context needs.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Pretoria 8mm wildlife footage, black rhinoceros in grassland, South Africa home movie animal footage, and vintage rhino archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Pretoria or 1969 South Africa travel footage, then broader vintage African wildlife and savannah animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A black rhinoceros stands side-on in tall grass beside a pale object on the ground.

1969 Pretoria frame of a black rhinoceros in open grassland, seen through dark 8mm film borders. — The rhinoceros remains in profile in the field, with its head angled toward the grass.

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame with a rhinoceros turning toward the camera in a grassy landscape. — The rhinoceros faces forward in the grass, standing close to a pale object on the ground.

1969 Pretoria frame showing a black rhinoceros partly front-facing in a grassy field with distant hills. — The rhinoceros stands in the grass beside the pale object as the distant landscape fills the background.

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