Cape Town South Africa-1969: A Herd Of Elephants Looking For Food Amid Summer

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

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A Herd Of Elephants Looking For Food Amid Summer — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 shows a herd of three elephants foraging in a dry, arid landscape under a bright blue sky. The elephants, with visible tusks, walk slowly across a barren hillside scattered with dried brush and dead trees, likely searching for food during a drought. The image has a distinct Super 8 color palette with saturated blue skies and earthy tones, framed by dark borders suggesting a home movie origin. The grainy texture and slight camera shake add to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this archival wildlife moment.

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: 122671004

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: 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 archival wildlife requests needing 8mm footage of elephants foraging in a dry South African landscape.
Period detail: The saturated color, rounded frame edges, and 8mm home-movie framing support a late-1960s amateur travel or wildlife filming context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, observing the animals from a distance as they move slowly across open ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three elephants, tusks, dry brush, fallen branches, bare earth, low hillside, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transitional beat for drought, habitat, or African landscape sequences.
Historical context: The frames show elephants in sparse, dry terrain, offering visual context for wildlife observation without proving a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm elephants, South Africa wildlife home movie, dry landscape elephant herd, and vintage safari footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then Cape Town or South Africa 1969 footage, then broader vintage wildlife and arid-landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm footage from South Africa shows three elephants with tusks on sparse, dry terrain beneath a bright blue sky. — Three elephants move across a dry, brush-strewn landscape with visible tusks and film-frame borders.

A small herd of elephants appears in 1969 South Africa home-movie footage, standing among dry brush and dead branches. — The herd remains spread across the arid ground, with one elephant partly turned away near the right edge.

1969 8mm South Africa footage shows three elephants clustered on a dry, open slope with scrub and fallen wood nearby. — Three elephants stand in a loose group as the handheld camera frames dry brush and bare ground in the foreground.

The final frame shows the elephant herd in the same dry South African landscape, with tusks, brush, and 8mm frame edges visible. — The elephants continue foraging among dry shrubs and scattered branches beneath a clear blue sky.

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