Cape Town South Africa-1969: An African Elephant Grazing In A Vast Dried Field

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

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An African Elephant Grazing In A Vast Dried Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 captures an African elephant grazing in a vast, dried field. The elephant, with prominent tusks, moves slowly across the arid landscape, its grey hide contrasting with the brown earth and sparse vegetation. The scene is framed by dark borders, characteristic of home movie film, with a distinct blue sky and distant trees on the horizon. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color saturation typical of 1960s amateur recordings, 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: 122671648

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 wildlife, travel, or environmental documentary edits needing real 8mm footage of an African elephant in an arid field near Cape Town.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s amateur travel filming, with visible 8mm frame borders, saturated blue sky, and handheld framing of wildlife in open dry terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot distance and patient observation, showing the elephant grazing without staging, narration, or commercial polish.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, dry earth, scattered branches, sparse scrub, distant trees, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, color shift, and gate borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, environmental transition, or brief establishing beat for African landscape material.
Historical context: The frames document an elephant in a dry open landscape and offer visual context for mid-century amateur wildlife observation without proving a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status, source provenance, and any location or wildlife-use requirements.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm African elephant footage, Cape Town wildlife home movie, vintage South Africa nature film, and tusked elephant in dry field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Cape Town or South Africa material from 1969, then broader vintage African wildlife and arid landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Cape Town-area 8mm frame of a tusked African elephant grazing across dry ground under a blue sky. — A tusked elephant grazes slowly in a dry field, framed by dark 8mm film borders.

The elephant remains in profile among dry branches and low vegetation.

The 8mm home-movie frame shows a tusked African elephant grazing near brush in a dry Cape Town-area field. — The elephant lowers its head toward the dry vegetation while standing in open terrain.

A late-1960s 8mm frame shows the elephant beside dry brush, with distant trees across the horizon near Cape Town. — The elephant stands near dry brush as the horizon of trees stretches behind it.

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