South Africa-1969: Giraffe Feeds On Bush With Elephant In Background

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

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Giraffe Feeds On Bush With Elephant In Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene African savanna landscape. A giraffe stretches its long neck to feed on a bush in the foreground, while an elephant grazes in the distance near a distinctive baobab tree. The scene unfolds under a deep blue sky, with dry grass and scattered shrubs defining the arid terrain. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse into mid-century African safari footage.

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: 127487477

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

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: 1960s 8mm wildlife home-movie footage for documentary inserts, safari travel context, or archival sequences needing African savanna animals without people visible.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s amateur safari view, with visible cues limited to 8mm color film texture, distant wildlife, dry grass, shrubs, and a baobab-like tree.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, holding on a quiet moment as a giraffe browses near brush while larger wildlife moves in the background.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a giraffe at a shrub, distant elephants, dry savanna grass, scattered bushes, a broad-trunked tree, blue hills or sky, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, exposure variation, and contact-sheet gate edges that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, quiet transition, or period safari beat within a broader 1960s Africa sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for amateur wildlife tourism in South Africa, showing animals and arid landscape rather than built sites, signage, or human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, location description, and any wildlife or park-related context before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 South Africa 8mm safari footage, giraffe feeding bush with elephant background, vintage African wildlife home movie, and savanna landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other South Africa 1969 wildlife clips, then broader 1960s safari, savanna, elephant, giraffe, and home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a giraffe browsing at a shrub while an elephant stands near a large tree across dry savanna. — A giraffe feeds from a shrub as an elephant stands in the distant savanna.

1969 South Africa home-movie frame with a giraffe partly beside a bush and an elephant grazing near a broad tree in the distance. — The giraffe remains near the bush while the elephant grazes farther back.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing the giraffe feeding lower in the brush, with distant elephant, dry grass, and scattered shrubs behind. — The giraffe browses lower in the bush as the elephant remains in the background.

1969 South Africa frame with the giraffe mostly hidden by brush, dry ground in front, and dark distant wildlife partly visible to the right. — Brush fills the frame as the giraffe becomes obscured and distant wildlife remains visible.

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