Kenya-1969: Cape Buffalo Looks At Camera Then Walks Away In Grassland

$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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Cape Buffalo Looks At Camera Then Walks Away In Grassland — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a Cape Buffalo in a Kenyan grassland. The large bovine stands in profile, its massive curved horns prominent, before turning its head to look directly at the camera. It then begins to walk away across the green field, with dense shrubs forming a natural backdrop. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering authentic wildlife documentary footage from 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: 127566833

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s East Africa wildlife archive requests needing brief editorial or documentary footage of a Cape buffalo in a natural grassland setting.
Period detail: The 8mm color scan, soft focus, handheld framing and 1969 metadata support a late-1960s home-movie wildlife record, with no visible modern structures or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged safari or visitor-shot perspective as the camera observes the buffalo standing, looking toward the lens and moving away.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Cape buffalo, broad curved horns, green grassland, dense shrubs, a soft natural background and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage carries physical 8mm texture through visible grain, muted color shifts, soft exposure and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, safari cutaway, location-establishing detail or transition within a Kenya travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a large African bovine in open grassland with shrub cover, reflecting tourist or amateur wildlife filming rather than a controlled production setup.
Research note: No people, brands or private property are visible, but species identification, location metadata and copyright status should be checked before publication.
Research search match: Search matches include 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife, Cape buffalo home movie, East Africa safari footage and vintage grassland animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife clips, then broader vintage East African safari or grassland animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Cape buffalo pauses in grassland with curved horns facing partly toward the camera.

The Cape buffalo turns more directly toward the camera in the 1969 Kenya footage, with shrubs filling the background. — Buffalo looks toward the camera from a grassy clearing.

A soft-focus 8mm frame shows the Cape buffalo standing in grass, horns wide and body angled against vegetation. — Soft-focus view of the buffalo standing in grassland.

Buffalo turns sideways and begins moving across the grass.

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