Pretoria South Africa-1969: Two Rhinoceros Graze In A Field

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

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Two Rhinoceros Graze In A Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 captures two rhinoceroses grazing in a grassy field. The larger adult rhino stands protectively beside a smaller juvenile, both with prominent tusks, as they move slowly across the open savanna. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color grading with muted greens and grays, and visible film grain. The shot is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a camera or projector, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of African fauna in the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122667015

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 or South Africa archive requests needing brief, real home-movie coverage of rhinoceroses in an open grassy field.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie format, muted color, soft focus and 1969 metadata place the footage in a late-1960s amateur travel or wildlife-filming context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a distant, observational view as the adult and juvenile rhinoceroses graze, giving the clip an unstaged visitor-recorded wildlife perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two rhinoceroses, open grassland, distant low hills, dark contact-print borders, soft daylight and slight frame variation across the shot.
Film character: The clip carries a physical 8mm look with visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, muted greens and grays, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, conservation context beat, or transition within a sequence on African fauna.
Historical context: The footage documents a 1969 amateur view of rhinoceroses near Pretoria, showing wildlife as encountered through a period home-movie camera rather than a staged production.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but species identification, location context and copyright/licensing status should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Pretoria 8mm rhinoceros footage, South Africa home movie wildlife, vintage rhinos grazing, and 1960s African savanna animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Pretoria or 1969 South Africa material, then broader vintage wildlife and African travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two rhinoceroses graze in an open grassy field near Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 home-movie footage. — Adult and smaller rhinoceros standing close together in open grassland.

Adult and juvenile rhinoceroses remain close together while grazing in 1969 Pretoria-area wildlife footage. — Two rhinoceroses grazing side by side in a grassy field.

The larger rhinoceros stands beside the smaller one in muted 8mm footage from Pretoria, South Africa, 1969. — Larger and smaller rhinoceros close together in the grass.

Two rhinoceroses remain close together in an open field, framed by dark 8mm scan borders from the 1969 Pretoria clip. — Pair of rhinoceroses standing together in open grassland.

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