Cape Town South Africa-1969: Massive Male Elephant Walking Across Dry Clearing

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

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Massive Male Elephant Walking Across Dry Clearing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cape Town, South Africa, 1969, captures a massive male elephant with prominent tusks walking slowly across a dry, muddy clearing. The elephant moves from right to left through a sparse savanna landscape with scattered trees and dry vegetation under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural film artifacts, offering authentic archival wildlife footage 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: 122670261

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

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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 1960s wildlife or travel-documentary edits needing archival 8mm footage of an elephant moving through a dry African clearing.
Period detail: The small-gauge color film look, sparse visitor viewpoint, and 1969 metadata support a late-1960s home-movie wildlife travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, holding on the elephant as it walks without staging, narration, or visible human interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, dry muddy ground, low brush, bare trees, scrubby vegetation, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm texture, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that retain the feel of scanned physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transitional beat, or quiet establishing detail within a broader African travel sequence.
Historical context: The frames show a lone elephant in a dry open habitat, offering visual context for mid-century tourist or amateur wildlife filming without proving a specific reserve.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and wildlife-context claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 8mm elephant footage, South Africa home movie wildlife, tusked elephant dry clearing, and vintage African safari film may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Cape Town or South Africa travel clips, then broader vintage elephant or African wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm frame from South Africa showing a lone tusked elephant walking left across dry muddy ground with sparse trees in back. — A lone tusked elephant moves across a dry clearing bordered by scrub and bare trees.

The elephant continues left in profile, framed by dry ground, scrub, and distant trees.

Archival 8mm frame from 1969 South Africa showing a lone elephant with trunk lowered in a dry clearing. — The elephant lowers its trunk as it walks through the open, muddy clearing.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing the tusked elephant near the center of a dry clearing with scrub and trees behind it. — The tusked elephant remains in the clearing, with dry vegetation and trees forming the background.

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