Kenya-1969: Herd Of Water Buffalo Grazing In Grass On A Clear Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Herd Of Water Buffalo Grazing In Grass On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a herd of water buffalo grazing in a sun-drenched grassy field in Kenya. The animals move slowly across the open landscape, with some standing and others lying down, framed by a dense line of trees in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette typical of 1960s home movies. The scene evokes a sense of rural tranquility and natural observation, offering authentic archival footage of African wildlife.

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: 127566582

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: Kenya 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Kenya wildlife home-movie footage for documentary inserts, museum context, or editorial sequences needing grazing buffalo in an open field.
Period detail: The visible era clues come mainly from the 8mm color stock, soft focus, and handheld framing rather than from identifiable buildings, vehicles, or clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational tourist or traveler viewpoint, holding on the herd from a distance without staging or narrated intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing buffalo, a grassy open field, low brush, a dense tree line, patches of sun and shadow, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, muted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that give the scan a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, calm transition, or establishing beat within a sequence about East African landscapes.
Historical context: The scene documents a home-movie view of large grazing animals in Kenya, with no visible people, structures, roads, or identifiable landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location context, copyright status, and any use-specific wildlife claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Kenya 8mm wildlife, vintage home movie buffalo grazing, African grassland herd footage, and archival safari travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 travel footage, then broader vintage African wildlife or grazing herd material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing several buffalo spread across an open grassy field near a dark tree line. — Buffalo graze at a distance across an open field bordered by trees.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with buffalo grazing at mid-distance in a sunlit grass field bordered by dense vegetation. — Buffalo feed near the far edge of a grassy clearing.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing several buffalo in an open field, including one horned animal partly close to camera. — A small group of buffalo stands and grazes in the clearing.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with buffalo scattered across a grassy field, including horned animals near the lower right edge. — Buffalo occupy the foreground and distance of a tree-bordered field.

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