Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a herd of elephants in a dry African savanna. The elephants stand and move slowly around a pile of brush on a flat, sandy plain under a bright blue sky. Sparse trees and dead vegetation dot the landscape, with a line of green bushes in the background. The film shows natural movement and the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 home movie footage from the late 1960s.
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