Khartoum Sudan-1969: A Bird Flies Above A Field

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

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A Bird Flies Above A Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969, showing a wide, arid landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. A lone bird soars across the frame, flying from left to right over the open field. The scene is captured through the characteristic grain and color palette of 1960s amateur film, with a dark border framing the image. The distant horizon features sparse vegetation and faint hills, evoking a sense of quiet, expansive nature. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of Sudanese countryside life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122682009

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1960s Sudan home-movie nature footage, especially brief editorial inserts of open countryside, sky, and a bird in flight.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, visible frame borders, and muted exposure are consistent with late-1960s amateur travel or home-movie filming.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged observer's view, holding on a distant field and passing bird rather than arranging a formal wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad dry field, low horizon, scattered clouds, blue sky, sparse vegetation, distant hills, dark film borders, and a small bird in flight.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, slight softness, handheld stillness, dark gate edges, and color fading that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, landscape insert, location transition, or reflective memory beat within a Sudan or travel sequence.
Historical context: The frames show open land near Khartoum as recorded in 1969 home-movie material, without visible people, structures, vehicles, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and location identification should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Khartoum 8mm landscape, Sudan home movie bird in flight, arid field archival footage, and 1960s travel film countryside.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Khartoum footage, then broader Sudan landscape, sky, and wildlife cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum home-movie frame showing a small bird over a wide arid field with sparse vegetation and distant low hills. — A small bird crosses above an open field beneath scattered clouds.

A 1969 Khartoum landscape frame with a distant bird above flat open ground, sparse plants, and a low hill on the horizon. — The bird appears small against the sky and low horizon.

1969 Sudan home-movie frame of an arid field and broad sky, with a small bird faintly visible above the distant horizon. — A faint bird mark crosses the sky over the broad field.

Final 1969 Khartoum frame with a small bird above open countryside, scattered clouds, distant low hills, and visible 8mm frame edges. — The bird continues across the sky above the open landscape.

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