Sudan-1969: Lions Resting on Rocky Bluff

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSudan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Sudan

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Lions Resting on Rocky Bluff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures three golden lions resting on a sun-drenched rocky bluff. The lions lie sprawled across the weathered stone, basking in the warm light of a clear day. In the background, a grassy field stretches toward a line of leafy trees, with a small path visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into wildlife observation from the late 1960s. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a window or binoculars.

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: 127551233

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 suited for documentary inserts about observed lions, travel filming, or archival nature scenes.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s 8mm travel filming, with lions viewed from a shaded or windowed vantage and no modern signage or built structures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-observation quality, holding on resting lions from a cautious distance rather than presenting a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three golden lions, a pale rocky bluff, grassy ground beyond, leafy trees, scattered branches, dark frame borders, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, muted color shifts, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight camera movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transitional beat between broader landscape and animal-observation material.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for mid-century amateur wildlife viewing, showing lions at rest in an open rocky and grassy setting without visible visitors.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, source ownership, location identity, and animal-setting context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Sudan 8mm lions, vintage home movie wildlife, golden lions resting on rocks, and African travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Sudan 1969 footage, then broader vintage wildlife or animal-observation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing three golden lions lying on pale rock near grass and leafy trees, seen through dark frame borders. — Three lions rest across a sunlit rocky surface with a grassy area and trees in the background.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with three resting lions on weathered rock, backed by grass, trees, and a faint path-like strip. — Resting lions are spread across the rock while grass and trees fill the background.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame showing three lions on a broad rock surface, with leafy trees at right and grass beyond. — The lions remain scattered across the bluff, framed by rock in front and greenery behind.

1969 Sudan 8mm frame with a central lion on pale rock and two lions farther back near the grassy, tree-lined area. — A lion rests near the center of the rocky bluff as two others lie farther back by the grass.

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