Khartoum Sudan-1969: A Shot Of The Plains

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

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A Shot Of The Plains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969, capturing a sweeping panoramic view of the Sudanese plains. The clip features a wide, open landscape under a muted purple sky, with rugged rock formations and distant mountains visible on the horizon. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus typical of amateur 1960s home movies. The camera pans slowly across the terrain, emphasizing the vastness and serene isolation of the African wilderness. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Sudan, perfect for historical documentaries, travel narratives, 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: 122676805

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 8mm Sudan landscape footage as an establishing view, travel insert, or archival environmental cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show a soft, color-shifted home-movie view that supports a late-1960s amateur-film context, with no visible modern infrastructure or date-specific markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot perspective, slowly observing open plains and distant rock formations rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open grassland, low ridges, rugged rock outcrops, a muted sky, dark foreground terrain, and the rounded borders of scanned 8mm frames.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that reads as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transitional landscape beat, or quiet memory cutaway within a travel, geography, or archival sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for open rural terrain recorded in Sudan in 1969, without showing people, buildings, transport, or identifiable civic activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status, source licensing, and any location-specific use requirements.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm plains footage, Khartoum home movie landscape, African plains vintage film, and Super 8 rock formations.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Sudan or Khartoum footage, then broader vintage 8mm landscape and travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan home-movie frame showing dark plains and a rugged rock formation beneath a purple-blue sky. — Open plains with a prominent rocky outcrop on the horizon.

1969 Sudan landscape frame with low grassland, distant rugged rocks, and soft color-shifted 8mm texture. — Distant rock formations across a broad, low plain.

1969 Sudan home-movie view of open plains and rocky hills, with visible dust or scratch marks in the sky area. — Rocky horizon across open terrain, with visible film marks.

1969 Sudan landscape frame showing low rounded hills and dark open plains beneath a muted purple-blue sky. — Low hills and shadowed plains at the end of the pan.

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