Khartoum Sudan-1969: Large Secretary Bird Walking While Shaking Out Its Feathers

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

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Large Secretary Bird Walking While Shaking Out Its Feathers — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a large bird, likely a secretary bird, walking across a dry, grassy savanna. The clip is framed by dark vertical borders, suggesting it was filmed through a vehicle window. The bird moves steadily across the arid landscape, its feathers ruffled as it shakes its body. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife observation offers a rare glimpse of African bush 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: 122678002

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 1960s African wildlife or travel-documentary sequences needing a brief archival cutaway of a large bird moving through dry savanna near Khartoum.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s home-movie wildlife filming, with soft 8mm color, heavy grain, and dark window-like borders framing the distant bird.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged traveler observation, filmed from a fixed or vehicle-side position as the bird walks across open ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large dark-and-white bird, dry grass, bare earth, low scrub, distant greenery, soft focus, and dark vertical frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries coarse grain, muted warm color, slight blur, and uneven exposure that help place it within a physical home-movie archive.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transitional beat in a sequence about Sudan, African bush landscapes, or birdlife.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest visual record of wildlife encountered around Khartoum in 1969 without showing people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification should be treated cautiously and copyright or source permissions remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife footage, Khartoum savanna bird home movie, secretary bird walking, and vintage African bush fauna.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum material, then broader vintage African wildlife or dry savanna travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant large bird, likely a secretary bird, walks across dry grassland near Khartoum in 1969 home-movie footage. — A large bird moves across open dry ground in a distant 8mm wildlife view.

The bird continues across the arid grassland, framed by dark vertical edges in the 1969 Khartoum 8mm footage. — The bird is seen farther across the dry field, with scrub and grass behind it.

A large dark-and-white bird stands or walks away through dry Khartoum grassland, its feathers appearing ruffled. — The bird turns or moves away, showing a darker body against the pale grass.

At the end of the clip, the bird appears smaller in the dry Khartoum savanna, surrounded by scrub and muted 8mm color. — The bird recedes in the open landscape as the home-movie shot holds steady.

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