Sudan-1969: An Elephant Feeds Among Lush Vegetation

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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An Elephant Feeds Among Lush Vegetation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a majestic African elephant with prominent tusks standing among dense green foliage in Sudan. The elephant moves slowly through lush vegetation, its trunk swaying as it feeds on plants. The footage, framed by the characteristic black borders of Super 8 film, shows natural movement and subtle camera shake, with the elephant eventually turning and walking away into the underbrush. The warm, slightly faded color palette and grainy texture evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during the late 1960s.

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: 127549544

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 wildlife, Sudan travel, natural-history, education, documentary, or archive sequences needing brief 8mm footage of an elephant feeding in dense vegetation.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the 8mm home-movie format, faded color, grain, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1969 Sudan setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged travel-home-movie viewpoint, with the camera observing a wild elephant from behind foliage rather than presenting a formal wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, thick green shrubs, dry ground, tree branches, palm-like plants, black film borders, and a later view as the animal moves away.
Film character: The footage has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, uneven exposure, warm faded color, visible frame borders, and slight handheld movement consistent with amateur film capture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, natural-history transition, or period texture beat within a Sudan or African landscape sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a brief encounter with an elephant in a vegetated outdoor setting, framed through a traveler or amateur filmmaker perspective rather than a staged production.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, location context, and any wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1969 Sudan elephant 8mm footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, elephant feeding in vegetation, and Super 8 safari travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 material, then related vintage African wildlife or travel-home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant standing among dense green vegetation with dark film borders. — A tusked elephant stands partly obscured by shrubs and branches.

1969 Sudan home-movie frame of an elephant with visible tusks standing in thick brush and filtered sunlight. — The elephant faces the camera through dense foliage.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a tusked elephant close in the shot, partly concealed by leafy foreground plants. — Foreground leaves partially obscure the elephant as it stands in the brush.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing the elephant from behind as it moves away through a vegetated clearing. — The elephant turns away and moves deeper into the underbrush.

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