Kenya-1969: Elephants Grazing In Tall Grass And Trees On A Clear Day

$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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Elephants Grazing In Tall Grass And Trees On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures an elephant grazing in tall grass under a cloudy sky in Kenya. The scene unfolds in a natural savanna landscape with scattered acacia trees and dense brush. The elephant moves slowly through the vegetation, its large form partially obscured by the tall grass. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color fading, and a purple-tinted sky, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic home movie clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125063908

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 Kenya archive requests needing a brief wildlife view with additional travel street material for documentary inserts or research reels.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s travel imagery, with one savanna elephant view and later frames of a street cart, pedestrians, shopfronts, and shaded building facades.
Home-movie behavior: The camera feels like a traveler’s handheld observation, shifting from distant wildlife to passing street life without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elephant in tall grass, scattered trees, cloudy sky, a covered cart, street pedestrians, shop signs, doorways, and dark vertical foreground shapes.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, dense shadows, visible grain, purple color shift, and handheld framing that give it clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel-memory insert, a transition from wildlife landscape to town activity, or a brief cutaway within a Kenya reel.
Historical context: The clip visually connects safari landscape and urban street activity, but the exact town, route, and identities of people shown are not established by the frames.
Research note: Human likeness review is advised for the street frames, and visible storefront signs or buildings should be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Searchers might match this to 1969 Kenya 8mm home movie, elephant in tall grass, African street cart, travel footage, and vintage safari reel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Kenya 1969 travel footage, then with broader 1960s safari, wildlife, and street-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing an elephant partly hidden by tall savanna grass, with trees and a cloudy purple-tinted sky behind it. — An elephant grazes or stands among tall grass in a savanna landscape.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame of a shaded street with pedestrians near a covered cart and storefronts, with signage visible but not clearly readable. — Pedestrians move near a covered cart outside street-front buildings.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a covered street cart near building entrances, with several pedestrians partly obscured by shadows and foreground shapes. — A covered cart stands near storefronts as people pass through the shaded street.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with pedestrians walking beside a covered cart and building facades, filmed in high contrast shade. — People walk past a covered cart along a shaded street frontage.

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