Cape Town South Africa-1969: Three Elephants Standing In Barren Field On Clear

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

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Three Elephants Standing In Barren Field On Clear — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 captures three elephants standing in a dry, barren field under a clear blue sky. The grainy, color-graded imagery shows the elephants amidst sparse vegetation and scattered branches, with one elephant on the left displaying prominent tusks. The shot is framed by dark vertical borders, suggesting viewing through a window or scope, with a slight camera wobble typical of handheld home movie footage. The scene evokes a sense of quiet observation in a natural, arid landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122671261

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

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: Useful for 1960s editorial or documentary requests needing archival wildlife footage from South Africa with a quiet observational home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The 8mm color scan, visible frame borders, grain, and metadata-supported 1969 date place the clip in a late-1960s amateur travel or nature-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of unstaged visitor observation, with a handheld camera watching elephants from a fixed distance rather than presenting a controlled wildlife sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three elephants, dry uneven ground, scattered dead branches, sparse brush, a clear blue sky, dark film-frame borders, and one elephant with prominent tusks.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, muted color, and small handheld wobble that give the scene recognizable physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, environmental transition, or quiet beat in a sequence about South Africa or archival nature observation.
Historical context: The scene visually situates elephants in a dry open landscape near Cape Town as described by the metadata, without showing identifiable people, signage, or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, location permissions, and any wildlife-use context should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm South Africa elephants, vintage Cape Town wildlife footage, home movie elephants in dry field, and archival African wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Cape Town or South Africa 1969 footage, then broader 1960s wildlife, travel, and dry-landscape home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Cape Town-area 8mm footage shows three elephants on barren ground with scattered branches and a clear blue sky. — Three elephants stand among dry branches in an open, arid field.

In metadata-supported 1969 Cape Town footage, elephants stand close together on dry ground beside sparse brush and branches. — Elephants pause in a barren landscape with one animal turned partly away.

A handheld 8mm frame from 1969 Cape Town shows elephants standing in an arid field under a clear sky. — The elephants remain grouped together as the handheld camera holds the view.

The final frame shows three elephants in a dry Cape Town landscape, recorded on grainy 8mm film in 1969. — Three elephants stand amid scattered branches as the short wildlife shot ends.

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