Cape Town South Africa-1969: An Elephant Looking For Food In A Dry Land While A

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

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An Elephant Looking For Food In A Dry Land While A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 captures a herd of elephants traversing a desolate, arid landscape under a deep blue sky. The elephants, including a prominent adult in the foreground, walk slowly across dry, debris-strewn ground littered with dead branches and sparse, leafless shrubs. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, with dark vertical borders framing the shot. The scene conveys a sense of struggle and survival in a harsh, drought-stricken environment.

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: 122671827

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$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 archive requests needing African wildlife, drought landscape, or travel home-movie cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm frame, saturated blue sky, soft focus, and color fading support a late-1960s home-movie feel, with South Africa and 1969 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observer's distance from the animals, suggesting a traveler or visitor filming elephants without staged action or narrated intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include elephants, dry earth, dead branches, sparse leafless shrubs, a low horizon, blue sky, and dark film borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, color shift, and gate-edge borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, environmental cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into themes of arid habitat and animal movement.
Historical context: The scene visually places elephants in a dry, scrubby landscape, but the frames alone do not establish drought conditions, conservation status, or a precise reserve.
Research note: No people, logos, or buildings are visible, but users should still review source copyright, wildlife-location claims, and any collection-specific restrictions.
Research search match: Search matches include 1969 South Africa 8mm elephants, vintage wildlife home movie, dry African landscape, elephant herd walking, and Super 8 safari footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Cape Town or South Africa 1969 material, then broader 1960s wildlife and arid-landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing elephants in a dry, branch-strewn landscape under a blue sky. — Elephants cross an arid, debris-strewn landscape in a vintage home-movie frame.

1969 South Africa home-movie frame with a foreground elephant and smaller elephants in the background on dry terrain. — A foreground elephant pauses among dead branches while other elephants remain in the distance.

Soft 8mm frame from 1969 South Africa showing elephants moving through a dry, scrubby setting. — Motion blur and film grain mark a brief view of elephants moving through dry scrub.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing an elephant beside fallen branches, with other elephants visible farther back. — An elephant moves past fallen branches as the herd continues across the dry terrain.

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