Cape Town South Africa-1969: Large Rhinoceros Peacefully Standing Alone In A

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

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Large Rhinoceros Peacefully Standing Alone In A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1969 captures a young rhinoceros standing calmly in a dry, grassy field. The rhino faces the camera directly, its grey, textured hide and small horns clearly visible against the arid landscape. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a window or projector, with natural sunlight casting a distinct shadow. The film exhibits characteristic grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of a rhino in its natural habitat during the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122672317

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 archive requests needing a brief 8mm insert of a rhinoceros in a dry South African setting.
Period detail: The frame may show late-1960s home-movie travel filming, with soft 8mm color, heavy gate borders, and a static view of open scrubland.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the visitor-shot value of someone filming a calm animal encounter from a fixed, observational distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rhinoceros facing camera, dry grass, low scrub, open dirt ground, strong sunlight, a cast shadow, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color, mild softness, and visible frame edges that make the physical scan part of the archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition within a sequence about South Africa, conservation, or vintage tourism.
Historical context: The scene visually places a rhinoceros in an arid field setting, but the frames alone do not identify the exact reserve, enclosure, or habitat conditions.
Research note: No people, logos, or buildings are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and wildlife-context claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm rhinoceros footage, vintage South Africa wildlife, Cape Town home movie rhino, and archival safari animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Cape Town or South Africa 1969 material, then broader vintage wildlife or safari-themed footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Cape Town home-movie frame showing a rhinoceros facing the camera in dry grass and scrub, with strong sunlight and film-frame borders. — A rhinoceros stands alone in a dry field, facing the camera from a distance.

1969 Cape Town 8mm frame of a rhinoceros standing front-on in a sunlit dry field with scrub vegetation in the background. — The rhinoceros remains still in the center of the frame, lit by bright sun.

1969 Cape Town home-movie still with a rhinoceros in dry grass, framed by soft 8mm color and dark vertical borders. — A soft 8mm frame shows the rhinoceros standing against dry grass and scrub.

1969 Cape Town 8mm still of a rhinoceros in a dry field, with a distinct shadow and muted archival film color. — The rhinoceros stands calmly in the field as its shadow falls across the ground.

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