Kenya-1969: Zebra Walking And Standing In Purple-Tinted Savanna

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Zebra Walking And Standing In Purple-Tinted Savanna — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a zebra walking and standing in a vast African savanna under a dramatic purple-tinged sky. The footage, likely from Kenya, shows the animal moving across dry grassland with scattered acacia trees on the horizon. The distinctive purple color cast suggests infrared film or a filter used during shooting, giving the scene a surreal, dreamlike quality. The grainy texture and slight camera shake are characteristic of amateur Super 8 footage from the era. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125063234

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: Kenya 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s East African wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary cutaways, archive research reels, or education segments needing a brief zebra-in-savanna view.
Period detail: The 8mm frame, purple color cast, soft focus, and handheld framing support a late-1960s amateur travel-film context, with Kenya supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, observing a zebra at a distance rather than arranging a formal wildlife portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a zebra, dry open grassland, low horizon, scattered trees, cloudy sky, purple-tinted color, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, uneven color response, soft exposure, slight shake, and frame-edge artifacts that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory beat, location transition, or atmospheric cutaway within a broader Kenya or savanna sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a zebra in open savanna habitat as seen by a traveler or amateur filmmaker, without visible people, vehicles, signage, or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific filming permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Kenya 8mm zebra footage, vintage savanna wildlife, purple-tinted home movie, and East African travel film cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife views, then broader vintage savanna or African travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a zebra standing on dry open savanna under a purple-tinted sky. — A zebra stands in the distance on open grassland beneath a purple cast sky.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with a zebra standing in a wide, purple-tinted savanna landscape. — The zebra stands at a distance near the right side of the open plain.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a zebra walking through dry savanna with a low tree line behind it. — A zebra walks across the grassland, with distant trees along the horizon.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a zebra walking across open savanna with scattered trees and a hazy distant backdrop. — The zebra moves across the plain, with scattered trees and distant haze behind it.

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