Khartoum Sudan-1969: Young African Elephant Walking Through Grass and Brush

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

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Young African Elephant Walking Through Grass and Brush — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a young African elephant walking through dense grass and brush. The elephant, with large ears and a long trunk, moves steadily through the natural habitat, its body partially obscured by foliage. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, with a slightly shaky handheld camera movement. The scene is framed by dark borders, typical of old home movie reels, creating an authentic archival feel. This nostalgic clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural environment, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or vintage nature projects.

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: 122678813

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: 1969 8mm wildlife footage from Sudan for archive requests needing African elephant behavior, travel-film context, or vintage nature cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and contact-print border may show late-1960s home-movie practice rather than a staged wildlife production.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a fixed, slightly obscured position as the elephant moves through brush, preserving a visitor-shot wildlife encounter.
What appears in frame: A young elephant, raised ears, long trunk, scrub grass, leafy brush, dark frame edges, and soft daylight are visible across the four frames.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, muted warm color, mild softness, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned small-gauge home movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief wildlife insert, travel-reel cutaway, nature transition, or period memory beat within a 1960s Africa sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for a 1969 Sudan travel reel by showing wildlife observed in open brush without adding unsupported claims about site or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source permissions, and any production-specific wildlife context.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s Sudan 8mm elephant footage, Khartoum wildlife home movie, African elephant in brush, and vintage travel reel animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Khartoum or Sudan 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame showing a young African elephant partly hidden by grass and brush, facing the camera with ears spread. — A young elephant faces the camera from behind scrub vegetation.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame of a young elephant in scrub, its body partly shadowed and partly obscured by vegetation. — The elephant pauses or moves slowly through dense brush.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame showing the young elephant closer to camera, with foliage crossing the lower foreground. — The elephant advances through grass with brush in the foreground.

1969 Khartoum, Sudan 8mm frame of a young elephant among scrub plants, lifting its trunk near its mouth or face. — The elephant lifts its trunk while standing in scrub vegetation.

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