Kenya-1969: A Zebra Walks Across The Savannah Near A Watering Hole

$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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A Zebra Walks Across The Savannah Near A Watering Hole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a zebra walking across the Kenyan savannah under a dramatic purple-tinted sky. The footage, likely shot during twilight or with a color filter, shows the animal moving through open plains with scattered acacia trees in the distance. The distinctive purple hue and film grain give the clip a nostalgic, dreamlike quality. The sequence includes wide landscape shots of the African wilderness, emphasizing the vastness of the terrain and the solitary journey of the zebra. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 125063236

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s East Africa wildlife or travel-film requests needing a brief 8mm insert of a zebra and open savannah landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color cast, grain, soft focus, and home-movie framing support a late-1960s amateur travel-film context, with Kenya supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming from a fixed or lightly handheld vantage point, watching wildlife without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a zebra, open dry plain, low distant trees, a dark horizon, broad clouded sky, and the contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows pronounced grain, purple color shift, soft exposure, and slight handheld instability characteristic of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, atmospheric transition, or short establishing beat for East African plains.
Historical context: The scene records a visitor-era view of wildlife on open Kenyan savannah, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or modern signage in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife location, source copyright, and any collection-specific usage terms still require review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage, zebra on savannah, African plains home movie, and vintage safari landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Kenya travel shots, then other 1969 Kenya wildlife material, then broader 1960s African savannah or safari footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a zebra crossing open savannah with distant low trees under a purple-tinted sky. — A zebra moves across the open savannah beneath a dark, color-shifted sky.

Purple-tinted 8mm frame of a clouded sky over a dark, low savannah horizon in Kenya. — The view shifts to sky and horizon, with the landscape rendered in a strong purple cast.

1969 Kenya 8mm landscape frame showing open savannah and a low horizon beneath a purple clouded sky. — A wide savannah view emphasizes the low horizon and heavy purple-blue sky.

Purple-shifted 8mm frame of Kenyan savannah with distant tree shapes along the horizon. — Distant trees sit along the horizon in a wide, grainy savannah landscape.

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