Sudan-1969: Bird Walking Across Grassy Plain

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Bird Walking Across Grassy Plain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a lone bird walking across a dry, grassy plain in Sudan. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the bird moving steadily away from the camera across uneven terrain. The scene is bathed in natural light with muted earth tones and a grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 film. The image quality is soft and slightly obscured, reflecting the era's home movie aesthetic. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a remote African landscape, evoking a sense of quiet observation and historical documentation.

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: 127549499

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: 1960s Sudan wildlife home-movie footage can support documentary or education requests for remote countryside observation and non-staged animal movement.
Period detail: The 8mm framing, muted color, grain, and soft focus may show a 1969 amateur travel or home-movie view rather than a planned wildlife study.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a viewer filming from behind a window or vehicle frame while tracking a distant bird moving across open ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone bird, dry grass, bare soil, scrub vegetation, soft distant brush, and dark vertical frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft registration, muted earth color, and slight exposure unevenness that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within a Sudan or countryside sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a sparse rural landscape and distant animal movement without enough visual evidence to identify the exact species or setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but species identification, location specificity, and copyright status still need review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife, bird walking dry plain, African countryside home movie, and vintage travel animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 material, then broader 1960s African countryside or wildlife cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a distant bird crossing a dry, scrubby plain, partly viewed through dark vertical framing. — A lone bird moves across dry grass and bare soil in a distant countryside view.

1969 Sudan home-movie frame with a lone bird on open dry terrain, seen at a distance through a divided frame. — The bird appears farther across the plain, with low scrub and uneven ground around it.

Soft 8mm frame from Sudan in 1969 showing a distant bird centered against dry grass, bare soil, and low brush. — The bird is centered in the frame as it continues across the dry countryside.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a small distant bird in a scrubby dry landscape with dark vertical frame borders. — The bird recedes into the scrubby plain, softened by distance and 8mm film texture.

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