Sudan-1969: Adult African Elephant and Her Calf Traveling

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Adult African Elephant and Her Calf Traveling — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures an adult African elephant with prominent tusks walking through a sun-dappled forest alongside her calf. The young elephant follows closely as they move through the natural habitat, surrounded by lush green foliage and tall trees. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film, shows natural movement and a slightly grainy, nostalgic quality. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse into the lives of elephants in their natural environment, perfect for historical documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127549569

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 Sudan 8mm wildlife footage helps document African elephants traveling with a calf for documentary inserts, education sequences, or natural-history archive research.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes from the 8mm home-movie source, soft color, dark frame edges, and handheld wildlife filming rather than any identifiable landmark or built feature.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged traveler or visitor filming quietly as elephants pass through trees at a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult elephant with tusks, a smaller calf, dry ground, green shrubs, tree trunks, patches of sunlight, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, travel-memory beat, transition within a Sudan reel, or cutaway for elephant movement and habitat.
Historical context: The scene documents elephants moving through a wooded natural setting in footage identified as Sudan in 1969, without visible people, vehicles, or built context.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should separately assess copyright, source provenance, wildlife-use context, and any project-specific legal needs.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm elephant calf footage, African elephant home movie, vintage wildlife travel film, and tusked elephant with young.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or elephant-family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a young elephant partly hidden by green foliage and trees on dry ground. — A young elephant moves through shrubs beneath tall trees.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a small elephant moving through a shaded woodland clearing. — The calf continues across a sun-dappled clearing.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing an adult tusked elephant close behind a calf in wooded habitat. — An adult elephant with tusks follows near the calf among shrubs.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a tusked adult elephant and calf traveling through trees and low brush. — The adult elephant and calf pass together through the wooded scene.

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