South Africa-1969: Baby Elephant Taking A Drink

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSouth Africa
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 South Africa

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Baby Elephant Taking A Drink — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a baby elephant in a dry, dusty African landscape. The young elephant stands near a shallow depression, using its trunk to drink water from the ground. The footage, framed by dark borders suggesting a view through a vehicle window, shows the elephant lifting its trunk with a small object in its mouth. The scene is bathed in natural light with warm earth tones and visible film grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of a baby elephant in its natural habitat.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127486782

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: South Africa 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: 1969 South African 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, museum interpretation, or archival sequences needing a young elephant drinking in a dry landscape.
Period detail: The scene carries 1960s home-movie traits through 8mm framing, visible film grain, warm color, and a distant visitor viewpoint across an open animal habitat.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming quietly from behind a dark window or vehicle frame while the elephant drinks and lifts its trunk.
What appears in frame: A young elephant, dry earth, a shallow water depression, sparse green brush, eroded banks, dark frame borders, and natural daylight are visible.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm texture, moderate grain, muted warm color, and slight exposure falloff at the borders that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader South Africa, safari, or animal-habitat sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents a visitor's view of an elephant in a dry outdoor African setting, without visible people, signage, or identifiable landmarks in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 South Africa 8mm elephant, baby elephant drinking, vintage safari home movie, and archival African wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1969 South Africa footage, then related vintage wildlife, safari travel, or elephant behavior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a young elephant near a shallow water hole in a dry, dusty landscape. — A young elephant stands beside a shallow depression and lowers its trunk toward the ground.

Young elephant in a dry South African landscape, filmed on 8mm in 1969, with dark borders framing the view. — The elephant remains near the depression, its trunk angled downward against the dusty ground.

1969 8mm home-movie frame of a young elephant lifting its trunk in a dry South African wildlife setting. — The elephant lifts its trunk slightly while standing at the edge of the shallow depression.

Young elephant raises its trunk near a small ground depression in 1969 South Africa 8mm wildlife footage. — The elephant raises its trunk near the water hole, surrounded by dry ground and sparse brush.

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