Irvine California-1974: Elephant Drinking from River in Desert

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationIrvine, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 Irvine California

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Elephant Drinking from River in Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a large elephant drinking from a river in a dry, open landscape. Filmed from inside a vehicle, the view is framed by the car's interior, with the elephant's massive grey body filling the frame as it bends to drink. The scene unfolds in a deserted, arid environment with sparse grass and distant hills under a cloudy sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in a remote setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127394294

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 reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 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: Irvine, California, United States 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s home-movie wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts about animal encounters, roadside viewing, or California travel memories.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1970s visitor perspective from inside a car, with the vehicle edge and handheld 8mm framing as the clearest era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged observer quality, as the camera watches a large elephant at close range from inside a vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the elephant's grey body, a pale car hood or window edge, grassy ground, low hills, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight jitter, and contact-sheet framing give the scene a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet animal-behavior beat within a longer archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests casual wildlife viewing in a dry open setting, but the frames do not establish whether the animal is wild, captive, or in a managed area.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location, and any animal-facility or property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm elephant footage, home movie elephant drinking, Irvine California animal clip, and car-window wildlife view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring reel material, then other 1974 Irvine or California footage, then broader elephant, animal drinking, or roadside wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Irvine-area home-movie frame showing a close elephant body near a car edge, with grass, low hills, and cloudy sky behind it. — A close view of an elephant beside the vehicle, with open hills and grass in the background.

Close 1974 home-movie view of an elephant's grey side beside the vehicle, with sparse grass and low hills beyond. — The elephant's side fills most of the frame as it stands close to the vehicle.

A close 8mm frame of the elephant beside the car, its grey body crossing the foreground with a grassy hillside in back. — The camera stays close as the elephant moves alongside the vehicle.

1974 home-movie frame showing the elephant next to the car, with a low green-brown hillside, trees, and soft film grain visible. — The elephant remains beside the car as the background opens to hillside and trees.

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