Sudan-1969: Various Buffalos By The River

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Various Buffalos By The River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a herd of African buffalos moving across a dry grassy plain near a river in Sudan. The animals, with their dark hides and prominent horns, walk and graze under a bright blue sky, framed by scattered acacia trees and distant hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from a bygone era.

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: 127549128

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: Sudan 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 8mm wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing African buffalo seen in archival home-movie footage from Sudan.
Period detail: The frames show a color 8mm-era field view with handheld framing, dry grassland, scattered trees and distant hills, consistent with the supplied 1969 Sudan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the herd from a stationary visitor or traveler perspective, preserving an unstaged wildlife encounter rather than a controlled nature-film setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include African buffalo, curved horns, dry grass, sandy river-edge ground, scattered acacia-like trees, brush, distant hills and bright blue sky.
Film character: The clip has 8mm film grain, soft focus, mild color shift, uneven exposure and slight handheld instability that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, ecological transition or brief establishing beat for East African or Sudan-related archival sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents buffalo moving and grazing in an open river-adjacent landscape, offering visual context for mid-century travel filming and wildlife observation.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any wildlife-location identification needs for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife footage, African buffalo home movie, vintage river plain animals, and archival buffalo herd film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Sudan material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or river-plain animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

African buffalo stand and graze on a dry grassy plain in Sudan, based on the supplied 1969 clip metadata. — A herd of buffalo occupies the river-edge plain with brush and trees behind them.

Several buffalo walk and graze across an open Sudanese grassland near a river area, as identified by the clip metadata. — Buffalo move laterally through the open plain with trees and scrub in the background.

Buffalo with prominent horns cross a dry grassy river plain in archival 8mm footage from Sudan, according to the metadata. — The herd spreads across the frame as distant hills and scrubland sit beyond the animals.

The final frame shows buffalo on an open Sudanese grassland, with scrub, trees and faint hills behind the herd. — Buffalo remain grouped across the plain, framed by brush, scattered trees and low hills.

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