Khartoum Sudan-1969: Small Blue Plane Taxiing On Grass Airfield

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

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Small Blue Plane Taxiing On Grass Airfield — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Khartoum, Sudan, in 1969 shows a small blue single-engine aircraft on a grassy airfield. The plane, likely a Cessna, is seen taxiing across the field with distant hills under a pale blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly shaky handheld camera movement, capturing a moment of early aviation in a remote location. The scene evokes a sense of adventure and nostalgia from the late 1960s.

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: 122682205

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: 1960s 8mm footage for productions needing a brief aviation or travel insert from Khartoum, Sudan, showing a small aircraft moving across a grass airfield.
Period detail: The small single-engine plane, grass strip, soft color, and 8mm handling support a late-1960s home-movie view, with the 1969 Khartoum setting supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, observing the aircraft from a distance with simple handheld framing rather than formal aviation coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue high-wing aircraft, grass airfield, low scrub, distant hills, pale sky, and dark contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, mild color fading, soft focus, exposure variation, and handheld movement that place the scene within a physical home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, aviation insert, or memory beat within a sequence about Sudan, small aircraft, or late-1960s journeys.
Historical context: The view documents small-aircraft movement on an open grassy field, offering visual context for regional travel or aviation without identifying the aircraft model or operator.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but aircraft identification, location certainty, copyright status, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Khartoum 8mm airfield footage, small blue plane taxiing, Sudan home movie aviation, and vintage grass runway aircraft.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Khartoum or Sudan footage from 1969, and then with broader 1960s travel, aviation, or airfield material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Khartoum home-movie frame showing a small blue aircraft on a grassy airfield, seen through dark film-frame borders. — A small blue aircraft is seen at a distance on a grass airfield.

Small blue high-wing aircraft taxiing on a grassy field in the Khartoum, Sudan clip, with low hills in the background. — The aircraft moves across the grass with low hills beyond the airfield.

Blue single-engine aircraft crossing a grassy airfield in the 1969 Khartoum footage, partly softened by 8mm motion blur. — The plane passes closer to the camera across the grass strip.

Final frame of the 1969 Khartoum airfield scene, with the small blue aircraft centered against grass, scrub, hills, and sky. — The aircraft is centered on the field as the distant landscape remains visible.

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