Pretoria South Africa-1969: Bongo Antelope Grazing In Grass Field

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

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Bongo Antelope Grazing In Grass Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 captures a large antelope, likely a bongo, grazing in a grassy field. The animal, with its distinctive light brown coat and vertical white stripes along its back, lowers its head to feed on the grass. In the final frame, it lifts its head and looks directly toward the camera, revealing its slender horns and alert expression. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette, with dark vertical borders suggesting viewing through a projector or film viewer. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into wildlife observation 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: 122667257

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s wildlife, zoo, or travel-documentary edits needing brief 8mm footage of an antelope grazing near Pretoria, South Africa.
Period detail: The 8mm source, soft color, film grain, and contact-print framing support a late-1960s home-movie look, with Pretoria and 1969 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes quietly as the antelope feeds, then catches a brief head-lift toward the lens, giving the clip an unstaged visitor-shot wildlife perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a striped antelope, curved horns, grassy ground, muted green field, dark frame borders, and soft home-movie focus.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, faded color, soft focus, slight motion blur, and dark vertical frame edges that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, zoo or reserve observation beat, or quiet transition within a 1960s South Africa sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a home-movie encounter with a large antelope in a grassy managed or open setting, without showing people, signage, or identifiable buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but species identification and location context should be reviewed separately from copyright and source licensing.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Pretoria 8mm wildlife footage, South Africa antelope grazing, vintage home movie animal footage, and striped antelope horns.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Pretoria 1969 wildlife or travel footage, then broader 1960s 8mm animal observation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A striped antelope lowers its head to graze in a grassy field, seen in 1969 Pretoria 8mm home-movie footage. — Antelope grazing with its head down in the field.

Profile view of the antelope feeding on grass.

A closer soft-focus view shows the antelope grazing, with horns, neck folds, and striped back visible in the grassy setting. — Closer grazing view with horns and striped back visible.

The antelope lifts its head and faces the camera, showing slender horns and pale stripes in the 1969 Pretoria footage. — Antelope pauses with head raised toward the camera.

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