Khartoum Sudan-1969: A Secretary Bird Walking Across the Savanna

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

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A Secretary Bird Walking Across the Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969, showing a large bird, likely a secretary bird, walking across a dry grassy plain. The shot is framed by dark vertical borders, suggesting it was filmed through a window or viewfinder. The bird moves steadily away from the camera across the arid landscape, with sparse shrubs in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight motion blur, and muted earth tones typical of 1960s amateur color film. This authentic archival clip captures a quiet moment of wildlife in the Sudanese savanna.

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: 122678051

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 wildlife, Sudan travel, or African savanna documentary edits needing brief archival 8mm animal behavior footage.
Period detail: The muted color, coarse grain, and home-movie framing support a late-1960s 8mm travel-film context, with no visible modern objects in the savanna scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, observing a distant bird from a fixed or constrained viewpoint rather than a planned wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: A tall bird crosses dry open ground, with pale grasses, low scrub, earth-toned soil, dark frame borders, and soft background vegetation visible.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, muted exposure, slight blur, and dark gate or window-like borders that give the scene a physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, travel insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within a Sudan or African landscape sequence.
Historical context: The frames visually document a dry grassy landscape near Khartoum in 1969, while the exact site and bird identification should remain cautious.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location detail, and wildlife identification still need normal review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife, Khartoum savanna bird footage, secretary bird home movie, and African dry grassland archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Khartoum or Sudan 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or savanna travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant likely secretary bird walks across dry grassland near Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 home-movie footage. — A tall bird moves through a dry, open savanna landscape framed by dark vertical edges.

The likely secretary bird appears farther away across the Sudanese savanna, with sparse brush behind it. — The bird continues walking away across pale grass and dry ground.

A small, distant bird figure crosses the dry plain in soft 1969 8mm footage from Khartoum, Sudan. — The bird is seen as a small figure against the dry grassland and scrub.

The likely secretary bird is centered in the frame on a dry savanna plain in 1969 Sudan home-movie footage. — A distant bird stands or walks across the center of the dry savanna frame.

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