Sudan-1969: Standing Elephant With Tusks Swaying Tail In Wilderness

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Standing Elephant With Tusks Swaying Tail In Wilderness — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a large elephant standing in a lush, green wilderness setting. The elephant, with prominent white tusks and a long trunk, sways its tail gently while surrounded by dense foliage and palm-like plants. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife from a bygone era. The camera remains steady, focusing on the majestic animal 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: 127549525

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: 1969 Sudan wildlife home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational sequences needing an archival elephant cutaway in a natural-looking setting.
Period detail: The footage shows an 8mm-era color home-movie view with no visible modern objects, relying on the supplied 1969 Sudan metadata for period and place.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a standing elephant from a quiet observer position, giving the scene an unstaged travel-film or safari-viewing character.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large elephant, pale tusks, long trunk, swaying tail, dense green brush, palm-like plants, tree shadows, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, saturated greens, and contact-sheet frame edges give the clip recognizable small-gauge film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, location-establishing cutaway, transition beat, or archival memory detail within an Africa travel or conservation sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a mid-century tourist or home-movie encounter with African wildlife without identifying a reserve, landmark, event, or specific expedition.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, source provenance, and any wildlife-location identification needs.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under searches for 1960s Sudan 8mm elephant footage, African wildlife home movie, tusked elephant in brush, or vintage safari film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Sudan footage, and then broader 1960s African wildlife or elephant material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant standing in dense green wilderness foliage. — A tusked elephant stands partly screened by brush and palm-like plants.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a tusked elephant facing forward in a green wooded setting. — The elephant faces the camera, surrounded by foliage and dappled shade.

Soft 1969 Sudan 8mm frame of a tusked elephant standing behind foreground vegetation. — A closer view shows the elephant partly obscured by foreground brush.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant with trunk lowered among dense brush. — The elephant remains in place with its trunk lowered among the greenery.

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