Khartoum Sudan-1969: A Giraffe Walks Across A Field Filled With Tall Grass And Trees

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationKhartoum, Sudan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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A Giraffe Walks Across A Field Filled With Tall Grass... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a giraffe walking gracefully through an African savanna. The animal moves from right to left across a field of tall grass and scattered acacia trees, its long neck reaching toward the foliage. In the distance, a prominent mountain range rises under a clear blue sky, adding depth to the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, natural color saturation, and visible grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains steady, observing the giraffe’s calm movement through 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: 122675943

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: Khartoum, Sudan 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: 1969 8mm wildlife footage from Sudan supports documentary or educational needs for African savanna animal movement and period travel-film context.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s visitor view of open grassland, acacia-like trees, distant hills, and a giraffe recorded on small-gauge color film.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed home-movie position, letting the giraffe move through brush without staging or visible human direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a giraffe, tall dry grass, scattered thorny trees, blue sky, distant mountains, soft film edges, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, and steady handheld framing that give useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief wildlife insert, geographic transition, travel-memory cutaway, or calm natural-history beat.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century amateur filming of wildlife in Sudan, without proving a named reserve or exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm giraffe, Khartoum wildlife home movie, African savanna giraffe footage, and vintage travel film animal scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum or Sudan material, then broader vintage African wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a giraffe moving through tall grass and sparse trees with blue sky and distant hills. — A giraffe crosses open grassland among scattered trees, with hills visible in the background.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a giraffe partly screened by brush in a grassy savanna landscape below distant mountains. — The giraffe passes behind low trees as the landscape opens toward a mountain backdrop.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a giraffe among tall grass and foreground branches, with hazy hills under a clear sky. — A foreground tree partially overlaps the giraffe as it moves through the grassland.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a giraffe beside a thorny tree, set against tall grass, distant mountains, and blue sky. — The giraffe pauses near a small tree, framed by grassland and a distant mountain range.

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