Khartoum Sudan-1969: An Elephant With Tusks Stands In Brush Flipping Its Tail

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

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An Elephant With Tusks Stands In Brush Flipping Its Tail — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a large African elephant standing in dense brush. The elephant, with prominent white tusks and large ears, is seen flipping its tail and occasionally flapping its ears while surrounded by lush green vegetation and palm-like plants. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic dark borders of 8mm home movie footage, offering an authentic glimpse of wildlife in a natural habitat 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: 122678264

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 wildlife footage as a brief documentary insert, nature cutaway, or home-movie view of an elephant in brush.
Period detail: The 8mm frame borders, soft color, and handheld framing support a late-1960s home-movie reading, while no specific landmark or event is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor-like distance as the elephant stands partly screened by vegetation, giving the moment an observational, unstaged quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, large ears, trunk, dense green brush, palm-like plants, dappled daylight, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has visible film grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-print borders that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory beat, transition into African landscape material, or cutaway within a 1960s archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage records a home-movie encounter with wildlife near Khartoum in 1969, without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and location-specific wildlife use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Sudan 8mm elephant footage, African elephant in brush, vintage home movie wildlife, tusks and ears, or Khartoum archive nature clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Khartoum or Sudan 1969 clips, then broader 1960s wildlife and travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant facing camera through dense vegetation. — A tusked elephant stands partly obscured by brush and palm-like plants.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame of an elephant facing forward in brush with tusks and trunk visible. — The elephant faces the camera from behind foreground vegetation.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan home-movie frame showing an elephant standing in vegetation with its trunk lowered. — The elephant remains still in the brush as foliage crosses the foreground.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame showing the elephant with ears spread while standing in dense brush. — The elephant spreads its ears while standing among shrubs and palm-like plants.

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