Khartoum Sudan-1969: Flock of Flamingos Flying in Formation

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

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Flock of Flamingos Flying in Formation — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969, showing a flock of flamingos in flight against a deep blue sky. The birds, with their distinctive pink and white plumage and long legs, fly in a loose V-formation across the frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural grain, and a slightly faded color palette with a prominent blue tint. The camera appears to be handheld, capturing the birds as they move across the landscape below, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in Sudan 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: 122681168

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 wildlife footage from Sudan for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about birds, wetlands, travel, or natural landscapes.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the 8mm film texture, soft color, and metadata-supported 1969 Khartoum setting rather than identifiable landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a handheld home-movie viewpoint, following birds in flight rather than staging wildlife behavior for a formal nature production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flamingos in loose formation, deep blue sky, low scrubby land, distant horizon, water or shoreline, soft focus, and frame-edge film borders.
Film character: The footage shows natural 8mm grain, blue-tinted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld tracking that give it authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel insert, atmospheric transition, or quiet memory beat within a Sudan, Nile-region, birdlife, or 1960s archive sequence.
Historical context: The frames show birdlife over an open landscape near Khartoum, offering visual context for late-1960s home-movie travel footage without proving a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright, source permissions, and any location or species identification needed for publication.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm flamingos, Khartoum bird footage, vintage home movie wildlife, flock flying blue sky, and African wetland archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Khartoum or Sudan footage from 1969, then broader 1960s travel, birdlife, wetlands, or home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum home-movie frame showing flamingos or similar long-legged birds crossing the sky above a low, open landscape. — A flock flies across the blue sky above a distant shoreline.

1969 Khartoum footage frame with a flock of flamingos or similar birds moving across open sky above a flat landscape. — Birds continue across the frame in a loose formation over the horizon.

A handheld 8mm frame from the 1969 Khartoum clip follows the flock as individual birds blur against the blue sky. — The flock spreads across the sky as the camera follows their movement.

Final frame of the 1969 Khartoum home movie shows the flock passing through blue sky with soft 8mm grain and motion blur. — The flock passes through the open sky near the end of the clip.

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