Pretoria South Africa-1969: Horned Antelope Grazes in Field While Swishing Tail

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

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Horned Antelope Grazes in Field While Swishing Tail — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 shows a large horned antelope, likely a blesbok or similar species, grazing in a grassy field. The animal, with a light brown coat and distinctive white vertical stripes along its back, lowers its head to eat grass while swishing its tail. The footage is captured through a dark frame, suggesting viewing from inside a vehicle or structure, with natural daylight illuminating the scene. The grainy, slightly faded quality and soft focus are characteristic of 8mm film from the late 1960s, offering authentic archival wildlife footage.

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: 122667282

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$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 Pretoria 8mm wildlife footage for documentary inserts needing a grazing horned antelope in a South African field.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, dark filmed-through framing, and 1969 metadata place this as late-1960s home-movie wildlife footage rather than a staged wildlife scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the antelope from behind a dark window or frame as it grazes and swishes its tail.
What appears in frame: A horned antelope, pale back stripes, grassy field, dark vertical framing, soft daylight, lowered head, and tail movement are visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and a stable but informal home-movie viewpoint.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition within South Africa, safari, zoo, or nature sequences.
Historical context: The frames show an animal grazing in open grass near Pretoria, offering visual context for late-1960s amateur wildlife observation without identifying the exact setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but species identification and any location or property rights should be independently reviewed.
Research search match: Searchers looking for 1969 Pretoria 8mm wildlife, South African horned antelope grazing, blesbok-like animal, or vintage home-movie animal footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Pretoria or 1969 South Africa material, then broader vintage wildlife or grazing animal clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame showing a horned antelope lowering its head to graze in a grassy field. — Horned antelope grazes in soft daylight, seen through dark foreground framing.

1969 Pretoria frame of a light brown horned antelope grazing side-on, with pale stripes visible along its back. — The antelope remains side-on, head down, feeding in the grass.

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame showing the antelope close in view, grazing with horns and striped back visible. — Close view of the grazing antelope with horns lowered toward the grass.

1969 Pretoria frame showing the horned antelope turned slightly away while grazing in an open grassy field. — The antelope turns slightly away while continuing to graze in the field.

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