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Cape Town South Africa-1969: Elephant Eating In Field

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Elephant Eating In Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 captures a large elephant with prominent tusks foraging in a dry, open field. The elephant moves slowly across the arid landscape, its gray skin contrasting with the dusty ground and sparse vegetation. The scene is framed by dark vertical borders, suggesting viewing through a window or camera lens, with a blue sky and distant trees forming the backdrop. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading characteristic of 1960s home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse of 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
122671585

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.

Open Clip Documentation RecordRequest source information

Topics & Keywords

  • animal
  • elephant
  • eating
  • wild
  • gray
  • field
  • animals
  • wildlife
  • SOUTH africa michigan
  • 1969
  • 1969 wildlife footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • South Africa elephant
  • wild animal footage
  • 1960s home movie
  • archival elephant
  • African savanna
  • classic film footage
  • retro wildlife
  • old film grain
  • documentary elephant
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage animal footage
  • historic wildlife
  • 8mm film
  • nostalgic footage
  • elephant foraging
  • African wildlife
  • old film color

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s archival wildlife requests needing a brief 8mm-style elephant foraging cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail
The faded color, visible grain, rounded frame edges, and contact-sheet sampling support the 1969 8mm home-movie context given in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has a visitor-shot feel, observing the elephant from a fixed or slightly handheld distance rather than staging behavior for the camera.
What appears in frame
A tusked elephant, dry open ground, sparse brush, distant trees, blue sky, and dark vertical frame borders are visible across the sampled frames.
Film character
The clip shows soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and gate-edge shadowing that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, environmental transition, or quiet archival beat between broader South Africa sequences.
Historical context
The scene visually documents a large elephant foraging in an arid open setting, without visible people, vehicles, signage, or landmarks to identify the exact site.
Research note
No people, brands, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, source permissions, wildlife-location context, and title metadata should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Relevant searches include 1969 8mm elephant footage, Cape Town South Africa wildlife home movie, tusked elephant foraging, and vintage safari-style travel film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Cape Town or South Africa 1969 material, then broader vintage wildlife and elephant foraging clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Cape Town metadata frame showing a tusked elephant moving through a dry field with brush, trees, and dark film borders.
A tusked elephant forages across a dry, open field under a blue sky.
1969 Cape Town metadata frame with a tusked elephant in profile, crossing dusty ground with low brush and trees in the background.
The elephant walks slowly through the arid field, framed by dark film edges.
1969 Cape Town metadata frame showing the elephant feeding or investigating dry vegetation in an open, arid field.
The elephant lowers its head toward dry vegetation in the open field.
1969 Cape Town metadata frame of a tusked elephant standing in a dry open landscape with sparse plants and distant trees.
A tusked elephant stands amid scattered dry brush in the field.

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