Khartoum Sudan-1969: Men On A Boat In Desert Landscape

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

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Men On A Boat In Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 captures a man in a light-colored shirt operating a small motorboat on calm water, with another person partially visible. The scene transitions to wide shots of a vast, arid desert landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, featuring distant hills and sparse vegetation. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century travel and exploration.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122681999

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1960s Sudan home-movie footage suited to requests for travel, river transport, and arid landscape establishing material.
Period detail: The small motorboat, casual clothing, 8mm color stock, and handheld framing support a late-1960s travel-film reading without identifying a specific event.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, watching men handle a boat before cutting to a broad open landscape from a traveler’s viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men near a small motorboat, calm water, bright sky, low desert terrain, sparse vegetation, distant hills, and heavy film gate edges.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, color fading, uneven exposure, dust marks, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, river-to-desert transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a Sudan or North Africa sequence.
Historical context: The images show leisure or travel movement around water and open dry terrain near Khartoum, offering visual context rather than evidence of a named historical event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status remains separate from visual clearance.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1969 Sudan 8mm home movie, Khartoum motorboat footage, vintage desert landscape, and African travel film cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Khartoum or Sudan 1969 material, then broader vintage travel, river, boat, and desert landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum home-movie frame showing men around a small motorboat on calm water, partially obscured by film-frame borders. — Men are seen beside a small motorboat on calm water.

1969 Khartoum travel footage frame with a man leaning into a small motorboat and another person seated near the water. — A man works over the boat while another person sits nearby.

Wide 1969 Sudan landscape view with dry open ground, sparse vegetation, distant low hills, and a clouded blue sky. — A broad dry landscape stretches beneath scattered clouds.

Wide Sudan travel-film frame showing open arid terrain, sparse trees, far hills, and a bright sky with scattered clouds. — Sparse trees and distant hills appear across an open arid view.

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