Pretoria South Africa-1969: Elephant with Large Ears Feeding on Foliage

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

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Elephant with Large Ears Feeding on Foliage — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1969 captures a large elephant with prominent ears and long tusks feeding on grass and foliage in a natural savanna setting. The elephant moves slowly through the green brush, its trunk reaching into the bushes to pull down leaves. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color grading with muted greens and earth tones, and visible film grain. The shot is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a projector or vintage camera, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of African fauna 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: 122667437

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: Supports 1960s wildlife archive requests needing short home-movie footage of an elephant feeding in a South African bush setting.
Period detail: The soft 8mm texture, muted color, and metadata-supported 1969 Pretoria location place the scene in a late-1960s amateur travel or wildlife filming context.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged visitor-shot view of a wild elephant moving slowly through brush, observed from a distance without visible handlers or spectators.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant with large ears and tusks, tall grass, dense green shrubs, scattered trees, dark film-frame borders, and soft natural light.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld instability, muted greens and earth tones, and dark gate edges that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, African savanna transition, or brief visual beat for historic nature observation.
Historical context: The footage shows a period home-movie encounter with African wildlife near Pretoria, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, signage, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location accuracy, and any wildlife-area permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Pretoria elephant footage, vintage 8mm African wildlife, elephant eating grass home movie, and South Africa wildlife archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Pretoria material, then broader vintage African wildlife or elephant behavior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Pretoria home-movie frame showing an elephant with large ears and tusks feeding near shrubs in a bush setting. — An elephant stands partly in tall grass, facing the brush with tusks visible.

1969 Pretoria frame of an elephant feeding at the edge of dense green shrubs, with its body partly obscured by brush. — The elephant turns toward thick foliage, its tusks and shoulder visible through the vegetation.

1969 Pretoria home-movie still showing a tusked elephant in tall grass, framed by shrubs and trees in a natural setting. — A tusked elephant stands in a grassy clearing beside dense shrubs and trees.

1969 Pretoria frame showing an elephant using its trunk near leafy brush while standing in tall grass. — The elephant feeds from the shrubs, its trunk lowered and tusks bright against the greenery.

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