Khartoum Sudan-1969: Water Buffalo Grazing in Savanna

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

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Water Buffalo Grazing in Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a herd of African buffalo in a sunlit savanna. The animals, with their dark hides and prominent horns, move across a grassy plain dotted with patches of water and scattered acacia trees. Shot from a moving vehicle, the perspective shows the buffalo walking and grazing, with some turning to look toward the camera. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color saturation, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife scene offers a rare glimpse of Sudanese fauna from the late 1960s.

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: 122676364

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing brief 8mm footage of African buffalo moving through savanna near Khartoum, Sudan.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s safari or roadside wildlife view, with no visible modern infrastructure and only open grassland, water patches, shrubs, and trees as era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot, unstaged quality, with the camera observing buffalo from a moving or handheld position rather than from a controlled wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include African buffalo, curved horns, grassy savanna, shallow wet ground, scrubby vegetation, distant trees, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded color, slight blur, and contact-sheet framing that give the wildlife view its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, ecological transition, or period establishing detail for Sudan or East African savanna material.
Historical context: The scene visually situates buffalo within open savanna habitat near Khartoum in 1969, but the frames do not identify a specific reserve, route, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though users should still confirm copyright status and any wildlife-location requirements for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife, Khartoum buffalo footage, African buffalo savanna home movie, and vintage safari animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Khartoum or Sudan 1969 travel footage, then broader African wildlife, savanna, and vintage safari themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing African buffalo in a grassy savanna, softened by motion blur and dark contact-sheet borders. — Buffalo move across open grassland in a soft, grainy 8mm frame.

African buffalo appear in a sunlit savanna near Khartoum, Sudan, with scrub vegetation and shallow wet patches visible in the 8mm frame. — A small group of buffalo walks and pauses in the savanna.

1969 8mm footage frame from Sudan showing buffalo across a grassy plain, with brush and trees behind them. — Buffalo gather across the grassland, some facing toward the camera.

A late-1960s Sudan home-movie frame shows buffalo moving through savanna grass, with soft focus and visible film grain. — Buffalo cross the frame against scrubby savanna vegetation.

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