Sudan-1969: Lone Elephant Walking Through Field On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Lone Elephant Walking Through Field On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a lone elephant walking through a sun-drenched field in Sudan. The young elephant moves slowly through tall grass and scattered shrubs, its large ears flapping as it navigates the natural terrain. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife from a bygone era. The camera remains steady, focusing on the elephant's calm movements and the surrounding savanna environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127549677

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 suited to documentary inserts, archive research, museum interpretation, or editorial sequences needing a lone elephant in open bushland.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and contact-frame look support a late-1960s home-movie reading, while the visible scene itself shows natural scrubland without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a traveler or field observer filming an elephant from a fixed outdoor vantage point rather than a staged wildlife production.
What appears in frame: A lone elephant, tall dry grass, scattered shrubs, sunlit ground, darker foreground edges, and surrounding bush vegetation are visible across the frames.
Film character: The clip shows 8mm texture with visible grain, warm faded color, slight softness, and intermittent frame-edge shadows that reinforce its physical-film archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, African landscape insert, or quiet transition within a historical nature or expedition sequence.
Historical context: The material documents a brief visitor-shot view of elephant movement in Sudanese outdoor terrain, without enough visual evidence to identify a reserve or exact locality.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any wildlife or location-specific permissions for their use case.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1969 Sudan 8mm elephant footage, vintage home movie African wildlife, lone elephant walking in grass, or 1960s safari-style field footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Sudan 1969 material, then with other vintage 8mm African wildlife or outdoor travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing a lone elephant facing the camera amid tall grass, shrubs, and sunlit bushland. — A lone elephant moves forward through scrubby grassland in bright outdoor light.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a lone elephant moving through uneven grass and brush, partly screened by vegetation. — The elephant continues through low brush with its ears spread and trunk lowered.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing the elephant closer to camera, its body partly shadowed by foreground vegetation. — The elephant appears closer in the frame, surrounded by tall grass and scrub vegetation.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame of a lone elephant walking forward through sunlit grass and scattered bushes. — The elephant faces forward in open scrubland as bright sun catches the grass around it.

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