Pretoria South Africa-1969: Grey Mother Rhinoceros With Adolescent Rhino Baby

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

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Grey Mother Rhinoceros With Adolescent Rhino Baby — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, 1969, showing a mother rhinoceros and her adolescent calf in a grassy field. The pair stands close together on lush green grass under natural daylight, with a distant hillside visible in the background. The image is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a window or projector, with characteristic film grain and color saturation of 1960s amateur footage. The rhinos appear calm and engaged, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife interaction in a natural setting.

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: 122667118

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: 1960s 8mm wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial uses needing rhinoceros mother-and-calf behavior in South Africa.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, contact-print framing, grain, and saturated greens support the supplied 1969 home-movie dating without adding visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot wildlife perspective, observing the rhinos calmly from a fixed or lightly handheld vantage rather than staged animal action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mother rhinoceros, adolescent calf, grassy field, distant hillside, daylight, dark frame borders, and 8mm film grain.
Film character: The footage carries 1960s amateur-film texture through soft focus, visible grain, color saturation, gate-like borders, and slight exposure variation.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, conservation cutaway, travel-memory beat, or quiet transition within a South Africa or safari sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century home-movie encounter with rhinoceroses in open grassland, with no people or built environment visible in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, archive license terms, and any wildlife-location sensitivities.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 8mm South Africa rhinoceros, Pretoria rhino calf home movie, vintage wildlife footage, and mother rhino with young.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel wildlife material, then other Pretoria or South Africa 1969 footage, then broader vintage rhino or African wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame of a mother rhinoceros and adolescent calf standing close together in grass. — Mother rhinoceros and adolescent calf stand side by side in a grassy field.

1969 Pretoria 8mm frame showing a calf beside a larger horned rhinoceros in open grassland. — The smaller rhino remains close to the adult as both face across the field.

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame with adult and young rhinoceroses facing the camera from a grassy field. — The rhino pair turns more toward the camera while standing close together.

1969 Pretoria 8mm frame of a mother rhino and young rhino together in grass, bordered by the film frame. — The mother and calf remain together in the open field near the end of the clip.

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