Khartoum Sudan-1969: Herd Of Buffalo Walking Across A Field In Their Natural Habitat

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

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Herd Of Buffalo Walking Across A Field In Their Natural... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a herd of African buffalo walking across a dry grassy plain. The animals move steadily through a natural savanna landscape dotted with acacia trees and distant hills under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color saturation, film grain, and a slightly soft focus, with dark vertical frame borders suggesting viewing through a projector. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, ideal for historical documentaries, nature projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 122676339

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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: 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: 1960s Sudan wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, archive research, museum education, or period nature sequences needing real 8mm animal material.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1969 home-movie view near Khartoum, with savanna grass, acacia-like trees, distant low hills, and no modern structures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational traveler or home-movie perspective, watching a buffalo herd move across open ground without staged action or visible handlers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include African buffalo, dry grass, pale open soil, scrub vegetation, scattered trees, distant hills, blue sky, and dark projector-like frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, warm color, slight blur, and dark contact-sheet borders that give the wildlife view a physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, transition across Sudan material, or period insert for African savanna context.
Historical context: The frames present buffalo in an open savanna setting near Khartoum as identified by metadata, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identity, animal species identification, and source permissions still require normal review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm buffalo herd, Khartoum wildlife home movie, African buffalo savanna footage, and vintage travel film animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum or Sudan clips, then broader 1960s African wildlife and savanna home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing buffalo on a dry grassy plain with scrub, trees, blue sky, and distant low hills. — Buffalo move across open grassland with scrub and hills in the background.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with buffalo crossing a dry savanna area, backed by scrub trees and low hills. — The herd spreads across pale ground and grass near scattered shrubs.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a buffalo herd moving through dry grass and pale soil below dense scrub. — A clustered buffalo herd passes through the frame on open savanna ground.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame of buffalo moving across a dry savanna field with scrub, trees, and soft film blur. — Buffalo continue across the dry field, partially softened by motion and film grain.

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