Kenya-1969: Wildebeest and Zebras Grazing on the 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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Wildebeest and Zebras Grazing on the Savanna — Clip Details

KENYA-1969: A herd of wildebeest and zebras grazes across a vast African savanna under a dramatic purple-tinged sky, captured on vintage 8mm film. The footage shows the animals moving slowly across the dry grassland, with scattered acacia trees dotting the horizon. Shot on 8mm film, the clip exhibits characteristic grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic 1960s home movie aesthetic. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about wildlife and African landscapes.

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: 125063371

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: 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts, educational programs, and archive sequences needing grazing savanna animals in a home-movie record.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color 8mm texture and safari-style wildlife viewing, with no visible signs, buildings, vehicles, or landmarks to date the scene beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational traveler perspective, holding on distant grazing animals rather than staging action or emphasizing a single subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wildebeest, zebras, dry grassland, low shrubs, a distant horizon, scattered trees, blue-purple sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries dense grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue and purple, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, savanna establishing beat, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition between broader Kenya or East Africa sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents grazing wildlife on open Kenyan grassland from a visitor-shot viewpoint, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific reserve or migration event.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and avoid treating location or species identification as independently verified.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife, vintage safari home movie, wildebeest and zebra grazing, African savanna archive footage, and East Africa grassland animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 material, then wider vintage safari, savanna wildlife, or East Africa travel-home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing distant wildebeest and zebras grazing on open savanna beneath a blue-purple sky. — Distant wildebeest and zebras graze across the savanna.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with zebras and wildebeest grazing in a broad grassland view, softened by vintage film focus and color shift. — A scattered herd grazes in a wide savanna view.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing zebras and wildebeest dispersed across dry savanna grassland under a purple-tinged sky. — Zebras and wildebeest remain dispersed across the grassland.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with grazing wildebeest and zebras near low shrubs on an open savanna, with visible film softness and grain. — Grazing animals move slowly near shrubs on the open plain.

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