Pretoria South Africa-1969: Giant Eland Standing in Grassy Field

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

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Giant Eland Standing in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, 1969, showing a giant eland standing in a grassy field under a bright sky. The animal, with its distinctive long, spiraled horns and light brown coat, is captured in profile as it moves slowly across the open savanna. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and visible grain, framed by the dark borders of a projector screen. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 122667234

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s wildlife, African travel, or natural-history productions needing a brief home-movie view of an eland in open grassland near Pretoria.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s color 8mm travel footage, with the era mainly supported by the dated metadata and the soft projected-film look.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor-like view as the animal stands and shifts slowly, giving the moment an unstaged observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a giant eland in profile, long spiraled horns, pale body stripes, green grass, a flat horizon, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel insert, or quiet transition beat within a sequence about African landscapes or archival safari footage.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a recorded 1969 visit to a grassy wildlife setting near Pretoria without identifying a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Pretoria 8mm wildlife footage, giant eland in grassland, South African home movie animal clip, and archival safari cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Pretoria or 1969 South Africa footage, then related African wildlife and grassland scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A giant eland stands in profile on a grassy plain under a bright sky.

The eland remains still in the field, its long horns and body stripes visible.

1969 Pretoria home-movie still showing a giant eland on grassland, framed by dark film edges and muted color. — A soft 8mm frame shows the eland standing against the low grass and sky.

The animal stands in profile as the archival frame holds on the grassy setting.

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