Khartoum Sudan-1969: African Buffalo Herd on Savanna

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

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African Buffalo Herd on Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a herd of African buffalo moving across a dry grassfield near a water source. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the large, dark-horned animals walking and standing in a savanna landscape with scattered acacia trees and distant hills under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible film grain, slight motion blur, and dark vertical frame borders, suggesting it was shot from inside a vehicle or through a window. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in the Sudanese wilderness during 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: 122676382

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: 1960s Sudan wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts, educational context, or archival sequences needing large savanna mammals in original 8mm home-movie form.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm-era home-movie texture, dark frame borders, and a vehicle-like vantage, with no visible modern signage or infrastructure to narrow the date beyond metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip appears shot opportunistically from a sheltered or vehicle-side position as the herd moves past, giving it unstaged visitor-observation value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include African buffalo, curved horns, dry grass, sandy ground, scattered trees, brush, distant low hills, and heavy vertical film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, slight motion blur, and dark gate edges that preserve the physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or brief transition into a broader Sudan, safari, or savanna environment sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a herd moving through a dry savanna setting near trees and open ground, offering visual context for wildlife observation in the late-1960s travel-film record.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but species identification, location metadata, copyright status, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife, Khartoum savanna buffalo, vintage home movie African buffalo, and 1960s safari footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum or Sudan material, then broader 1960s African wildlife and savanna travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing African buffalo walking across dry grass and sandy ground among scattered trees. — Buffalo move through a dry savanna clearing with brush and trees behind them.

1969 Sudan home-movie frame with a buffalo herd moving past brush and trees in a dry savanna landscape. — A line of buffalo crosses the clearing while others stand near the brush.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing buffalo spread across pale grassland with trees and scrub in the background. — Several buffalo stand and walk across pale ground with scrubby trees behind them.

1969 Sudan home-movie frame of African buffalo walking through dry savanna, partly obscured by dark 8mm frame borders. — Buffalo continue across the savanna as the camera view is framed by dark film edges.

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