Khartoum Sudan-1969: A Large Group Of Water Buffalo Is Shown In A Small Clearing

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

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A Large Group Of Water Buffalo Is Shown In A Small Clearing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a herd of water buffalo in a sunlit African savanna. The grainy, color-bleached film shows several large, dark buffalo with prominent curved horns standing and moving in a grassy clearing near a muddy water source. The scene is framed by a dark border, suggesting viewing through a window or vehicle, with scattered acacia trees and shrubs in the background under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits natural camera movement and the authentic imperfections of archival Super 8 film.

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: 122676484

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s Sudan home-movie wildlife footage, especially documentary cutaways of buffalo in a dry savanna clearing.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and handheld framing support a late-1960s travel-film feel, while the landscape itself offers few date-specific visual markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, apparently filmed from behind a dark window or vehicle frame as buffalo stand and move without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark buffalo with curved horns, pale dirt patches, grass, shrubs, scattered acacia-like trees, blue sky, and dark vertical frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries visible grain, mild color fading, soft exposure, and handheld drift that read as authentic physical-film texture from a short 8mm reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, location-establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition within a Sudan or African savanna sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a small herd of buffalo in an open scrub landscape near Khartoum, without visible people, buildings, signage, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location attribution, copyright status, and any collection restrictions should be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife footage, Khartoum buffalo home movie, African savanna animals, and vintage travel film cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum material, then broader vintage wildlife or African travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum-area home-movie frame showing a dark buffalo with curved horns in a dry scrub clearing. — A lone buffalo stands in a pale clearing with shrubs and trees behind it.

Buffalo appear spread across a sunlit Sudan clearing, seen through soft 8mm home-movie focus. — Several buffalo stand at different distances in the clearing.

A closer group of horned buffalo fills the lower frame in vintage 8mm footage from the Khartoum metadata context. — A clustered group of buffalo stands near grass and pale soil.

Buffalo cross a scrubby clearing in a soft, motion-blurred 1969 Sudan home-movie frame. — Buffalo move through the clearing as the handheld camera blurs slightly.

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