Cape Town South Africa-1969: Three Big Strong Elephants Walking Through Savannah

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationCape Town, South Africa
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 South Africa

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Three Big Strong Elephants Walking Through Savannah — Clip Details

Vintage 1969 8mm home movie footage from Cape Town, South Africa, showing a family of three large African elephants walking across a dry savannah. The herd, including a smaller calf, moves from left to right across the dusty plain under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color saturation, visible grain, and slight motion blur. The shot is framed through a dark border, suggesting viewing through a camera or window. This authentic archival clip captures a serene moment of wildlife in its natural habitat, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century African safari footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122669678

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Cape Town, 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 requests needing late-1960s 8mm wildlife or safari-style home-movie footage for documentary, museum, education, or period travel sequences.
Period detail: The clip shows 1969-era 8mm color footage with a visitor camp setup and distant elephants on dry open ground, with Cape Town, South Africa supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, moving between a shaded camp moment with a person preparing food and telephoto-like views of elephants crossing the plain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three elephants, a smaller calf, dry savannah, scrub vegetation, blue sky, dark frame borders, camp furniture, and a person at a table.
Film character: The scan carries warm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, safari travel cutaway, transition from camp to landscape, or period memory beat.
Historical context: The material visually connects tourist or family travel filming with wildlife observation, while the exact reserve or setting is not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: People and possible face detail appear in the camp frame, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright and wildlife-location research.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm South Africa elephants, vintage safari home movie, African elephants on dry savannah, and family travel wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel camp or wildlife shots, then Cape Town or 1969 South Africa footage, then broader vintage elephant and safari travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 home-movie frame from South Africa showing a person at a camp table under shade, with containers and luggage around the work area. — A shaded camp scene shows a person preparing food beside stacked supplies before the wildlife views.

1969 South Africa wildlife frame showing three elephants moving across a dry plain under a blue sky, seen through dark film-frame borders. — Three elephants cross the open dry ground with scrub and sky behind them.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing elephants crossing left to right on a dusty plain, partly softened by grain and foreground vegetation. — The elephants continue across the plain, partially framed by tall grass and scrub.

Final 1969 South Africa frame showing elephants moving beside scrub and tall grass, with a bright sky and distant low tree line. — The group of elephants moves past foreground brush at the edge of the dry plain.

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